Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Director, Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Board Tenure: 1998 (pre-IPO) – present Committee Memberships: Leadership Development, Inclusion and Compensation Committee (LDICC) Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)

Basis for Inclusion: K. Ram Shriram holds a documented governance role as a director of Alphabet Inc. — one of the company’s original investors — which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while the corporation faced significant regulatory actions directly affecting its financial interests. Shriram has been on the Google/Alphabet board since before the company’s founding incorporation, making him the longest-tenured outside director alongside John Doerr. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.

What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Shriram’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, public statements, or any protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion. The basis is solely the documented directorial role and its fiduciary connection to corporate political spending documented in the parent corporate donor profile.

Biographical Overview

K. Ram Shriram is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sherpalo Ventures, a venture capital firm. He was one of Google’s earliest investors, providing seed funding in 1998 before the company was incorporated and when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were still at Stanford. Shriram joined the Google board at that time — a tenure of over 27 years.

Before Sherpalo, Shriram was Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com (1998–1999) and President of Junglee Corporation, which was acquired by Amazon. He was also an early executive at Netscape Communications. His career spans the first three decades of the commercial internet and he has made significant early investments in numerous technology companies. He is also a trustee of Stanford University.

He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Madras.

Board Role and Governance Authority

• Company: Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL)
• Board tenure: 1998 – present (pre-IPO founding investor)
• Committee assignments: Leadership Development, Inclusion and Compensation Committee (LDICC)
• Day job: Managing Partner, Sherpalo Ventures

Other Current Board Memberships

• Conduct detailed research via SEC EDGAR for current concurrent public company board seats

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Google/Alphabet corporate donor profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending, pending government business, and favorable outcomes under the Trump administration.

Sources

• Alphabet Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, 2025 (annual meeting June 5, 2025)
• Alphabet Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, 2026
• SEC EDGAR filing: Alphabet Inc. (CIK 1652044)