Nachiket Karajagi

Leading the end-to-end AI transformation for a Fortune 50 enterprise, bridging Board-level strategy with global-scale execution to drive competitive advantage across Commercial, R&D, and Supply Chain domains. Board-Level Strategy: Contributed to the Data & AI Strategy, endorsed by the Board as the definitive roadmap for AI-led transformation across Commercial, R&D, and Supply Chain. Massive Scale Business Impact: Directed AI initiatives that contributed to a incremental revenue lift (via PepIRIS) and identified a R&D opportunities through innovative agentic AI solutions. Enterprise AI Platforms: Architected a global ecosystem spanning Generative & Agentic AI, Computer Vision, and Edge/IoT Analytics. Spearheaded PepGPT, scaling secure GenAI across Pepsico employees as a foundational digital co-pilot. Marketing & Media Transformation: Pioneered an "AI for Marketing" agenda, fusing predictive models and consumer data to modernize content creation, media planning, and hyper-personalization at scale. Next-Gen Agentic AI: Led the company's successful Agentic AI program in LATAM, deploying autonomous sales assistants to retail customers with high recommendation accuracy, boosting basket sizes. Developer Velocity (DevX): Revolutionized engineering productivity by building a unified DevX platform and AI-assisted toolset for hundreds of developers, accelerating production cycles and robust AI Observability. Ethical Governance: Operationalized the enterprise Responsible AI (RAI) framework, integrating real-time compliance and bias monitoring across all global AI pipelines. Global Leadership: Manage a diverse, multi-disciplinary team of AI platform and solution engineers across US and global hubs; recipient of the Chairman’s Award for transformative digital impact. Partnerships: Manage strategic relationships with Tier-1 cloud providers (Google Cloud, Azure) and AI labs to secure early access to frontier models and compute.

1. Own all integrations (Legacy & modern), Containerization and IoT platform for PepsiCo enterprise use 2. Oversee a multinational team of cloud architects, product owners, SRE and vendor partners to engineer, develop and operate these large scale platforms 3. Acting as Chief of Staff to the 900+ employee PepsiCo CTO office supporting senior leaders (SVPs and VPs). Manage key leadership communication rhythms, and facilitate engagement with employees Key highlights Responsibility to manage critical Tier 1 platforms supporting more than $30B in revenues Responsible for platform roadmaps, and strategic investments to drive futuristic technologies for PepsiCo Launch and scale Enterprise IoT platform and CoE to enable a new line of business for PepsiCo consumer services as well as support use cases to drive operational excellence

• Manage delivery of IoT data platform, digital twins & AI/ML digital assistants for North America region across Oil & Gas, Process manufacturing and OEM customers

• Launched Robotic Process Automation (RPA) within the IT organization; Oversaw development on Blue Prism platform. • Initiated migration to cloud data lake architecture on Azure with near real-time replication from Enterprise systems like SAP ERP • Oversaw the document management team managing OpenText & Documentum

• Manage multi-million budget for data & analytics organization; direct a global team and 70+ consultants to develop analytics products across business value chain, and deliver features through Agile Scrum development methodologies. • Direct strategic road map from descriptive through prescriptive analytical products across commercial, supply chain, machine analytics, and services; partner with company leaders to identify business processes and product requirements. • Spearhead strategy for self-service analytics across BHGE; implement tools for different user personas. • Lead development of software products on cloud platforms utilizing micro services and connecting machine data for real time consumption by users.

This role is continuation of previous responsibilities after the merger of GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes, but increased scope across the combined new company - Baker Hughes, a GE company. Outcomes that my team drives include: 1. Driving direct material deflation through analytics for procurement spend 2. Develop analytics for providing visibility to excess inventory and segmentation to help reduce inventory on hand. 3. Help improve engineering design process and material optimization through parts standardization. Build Does cost & should cost calculators for the sourcing organization. 4. Reduce logistics spend through visibility and optimization. 5. Reduce cost of quality by building baseline metrics. 6. Develop applications on AWS and Predix platforms.

Lead a global team of product managers & data scientists leading development of analytics products across the business value chain, and deliver incremental features through Agile scrum development methodologies. Key responsibilities include: 1. Drive strategic road map for analytics products across commercial, supply chain, Machine analytics & services working with the business leaders within the organization. 2. Hire & develop a team of data scientists to work on predictive & prescriptive analytics use case as part of product development. 3. Define & execute big data platform decisions. Current tech stack include Greenplum, Talend, Hortonworks HDFS, Scoop, Tableau & Predix with future road map to Amazon Web Services. 4. Development of software products on the Predix platfrom using micro services & connecting machine data for real time consumption by users As additional responsibility, manage the budget for the overall data & analytics organization withing the company.

Lead a global team to support the indirect purchasing systems & the upstream systems for sourcing function. Lead the implementation of Buy to pay shared services which included supplier MDM,indirect material purchasing systems, supplier payments & collaboration. Conceptualized & initiated a GE Oil & Gas wide overhaul of the supplier MDM platform & migration of over 50 thousand suppliers on the new supplier MDM platform. As additional responsibilities, managed the budget for the IT shared services group within GE Oil & Gas. This included budget planning, driving operating rhythms, & reporting financials for consolidation. Helped drive 15% cost out for the shared services organization.

Key responsibility included implementation of shared services for the new acquisitions. Was part of 4 acquisition integrations for O&G valued over $6B, leading the implementations of Global operations enterprise standards that were defined for GE company. The shared service systems included Supplier MDM (Master data management), Customer MDM, Supplier payments, Tax , Fixed assets, Internal billing for inter-company purchases, travel & living and labor vouchering systems Was also managing HR systems integrations for 2 large acquisitions which included single sign on, email & payroll system integrations.

Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) is a premier executive leadership program in GE. The program involves taking the associates through multiple 4 month assignments across various GE businesses. • Led program assessment for critical system standard readiness across GE Power application landscape to identify policy gaps and provide recommendations. • Supported PMO for robust Secure Architecture Network Design (SAND) to overhaul GE network & establish new controls for cyber security across company. • Conducted information security audit for GE Capital Asia’s applications. Audited critical controls against information security policy and provided recommendations.

Inoformation Technology Leadership Program [ITLP] is a IT leadership program which involves 4 rotations of 6 months each in GE businesses. The program is combined with online and classroom training on technology and program management skills. Rotation 1: GE Corporate, Interactive Media Technologies Assignment: Work on web technologies to create internal portals for the various business segments & implementation of content management systems Rotation 2: GE Healthcare Assignment: Deploy a new legal entity (LE) on the strategic Oracle ERP for the business. Drive digitization of finance processes for the business. Rotation 3: GE Corporate - Vendor management Office Assignment: Assessment of strategic IT vendors for the GE company on adherence of the vendor program framework. Develop systems to drive visibility to total spend to help drive deflation for the GE company Rotation 4: GE Healthcare Assignment: Drive implementation of Material Requirement planning (MRP) for 2 manufacturing sites for GE healthcare. Lead assessments for business user readiness for using planning, demand forecasting, and supply forecasting through the strategic Oracle ERP platform. Drove BI tools penetration for Asia region for supply chain.

Worked for 21 Months in IBM as a software engineer. Developed & maintained mainframes applications of a telecom client. Developed billing solutions for the client using COBOL, JCL and CICS programming languages.

Worked as an intern building embedded software for a satellite. The software was intended to track sun ad the Satellite orbits the earth.

Stanford LEAD is a year-long, 9-course program which develops effective leaders who embody five core leadership competencies: critical analysis, self-awareness, interpersonal acumen, situational awareness, and holistic communication. These leaders complete coursework in key business fundamentals: finance, strategy, and critical analytical thinking, as well as elective coursework which equips them to successfully address and navigate the challenges and opportunities inherent in fostering and implementing change within their organizations. Throughout the program, participants exchange ideas and collaborate on projects with small teams of like-minded, like-motivated peers, and engage with world-renowned Stanford GSB faculty, Silicon Valley leaders, coaches, thought leaders, and luminaries through regular live events, discussions, and facilitated feedback.