Rajesh (Raj) Ramachander

Executive leader responsible for IT strategy, data & integrations, infrastructure, IT operations, and corporate business systems. Partnered with executive leadership to scale operations as the company grew from ~$300M toward $1B+ in revenue. Partnered closely with the executive team and Board to scale technology operations, modernize enterprise architecture and modernize measurable business value. Lead global IT teams across North America, Europe & APAC.

Provides Internet-connected stationary bicycles and treadmills with classes via streaming media; $4.1B revenue, 8,000 staff. • Oversee business operation technology planning, development, deployment, and integration of software, applications, data storage, networks, cloud, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and product functions, $45M OpEx, $23M CapEx, and 194 FTE staff. • Empower revenue growth from $1.2B to $3.9B in FY23 by leading enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps. • Enable manufacturing, supply chain, logistics (inc. Middle & Last Mile, 3PL), services, sales, retail store (POS, ordering, visitor metrics), wholesale, marketing, member support, warranty, and device repair by creating and maintaining IT systems. • Develop and implement IT applications & infrastructure for supply chain (SAP S4Hana, PLM, MES, WMS\TMS, ETQ) for 7M globally connected bikes and treadmills and operate ~55 distribution centers managed by ~4,000 employees. • Reduce costs by establishing and directing offshore technology teams in India, Eastern Europe, Philippines, and the UK. • Facilitate culture of collaboration and success through teamwork while leading teams to a unified vision. • Recruit, train, evaluate, and develop top-performing internal and offshore teams building advanced systems. • Developed and led technology integration of Precor, at $400M, the largest acquisition by Peloton.

Manufactures electronic cigarettes, via nicotine vaping cartridge, marketed to adults; $2B+ revenue, 1,500 staff. • Supervises cloud-based (AWS & GCP) business operation technology roadmap, development, and deployment of software, applications, databases, networks, reporting, cybersecurity, agile projects, other functions, $48M budget, and 72 FTE staff. • Empowered growth: revenue $500M to $2B+, employees 600 to 3500, and countries 2 to 22 by creating and deploying IT. • Empower finance, supply chain, quality, sales, marketing, customer service, human resources, legal, regulatory compliance, and other functions by building and deploying an innovative IT ecosystem. • Implemented ERP (Acumatica, SAP S4/Hana), Salesforce, Workday, ARIBA, MuleSoft ESB, Informatica MDM, Veeva, Onit, Anaplan, PMO, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and custom applications via “build over buy” speed and scalability plan. • Built direct to consumer, business to business, and direct to retailer e-commerce resources using internal and COTS systems. • Hired, trained, evaluated, and mentored 66 top-performing internal and offshore DevOps staff building advanced systems.

Provides a distributed platform and services for cloud computing, APIs, and software tools; $65B revenue. • Supervised gathering of insights on enterprise customer usage of services via big data analytics, data warehouses, business intelligence, machine learning, compensation plans, and $38M budget. • Enable targeted sales, marketing, and services proposals, campaigns, and reviews by 7,000 staff by impactful data mining. • Directed data science, application and software development, program management, and 75 staff through multiple high-speed designs, builds, and integrations. • Enabled revenue growth of ~50% in 18 months via agile management ~26 large, complex, global cross-functional initiatives. • Oversaw, trained, evaluated, and developed global teams in Seattle, Palo Alto, Singapore, and India. • Enabled data visualization KPI dashboards of customer information from 20+ systems by deploying innovative, global tools. • Developed and implemented a multi-year, scalable plan for software, applications, network, and data center expansion. • Replaced Oracle systems with AWS technologies: RedShift, Glue, QuickSight, Dynamo DB, and Informatica.

Provides video, voice, content collaboration, and communication technology as part of Plantronics; $1.2B revenue, 3,500 staff. • Oversaw development and maintenance of 60 enterprise applications for process automation, finance, legal, sales, marketing, web operations, order fulfillment, services, business intelligence, reporting, partners, and HR systems (Workday). • Led 300 global FTE IT staff, $35M budget. • Designed and delivered a $24M Oracle R12 ERP system for finance, tax, supply chain, operations, revenue management, business intelligence, disaster recovery, and business continuity within 11 months. Delivered Workday HR solutions in 4 months.

Provides semiconductors for Data Processing, networking, storage, and related technology; $4.7B revenue and 6,700 staff. • Developed business applications for ERP, finance, legal, sales, marketing, distribution, supply chain, business intelligence, reporting, CRM, PNO, and TIBCO middleware, $25M budget, and 60 staff. • Enabled revenue growth from $2.8B to $3.5B by creating and delivering a cloud-ready IT roadmap for business applications.

• Led global IT function to support marketing, sales, and 40 FTE staff within an $8B turbine manufacturing business. • Deployed Salesforce CRM, inquiry to order process, lead tracking, proposal generation, price quote, and service manager. • Directed design and implementation of SAP data warehouse for Sales & Marketing business intelligence for ~3000+ users.

• Administered IT strategy, execution, and support for $1.2B global locomotive and diesel engines service and maintenance. • Directed satellite-based remote diagnostic monitoring, CRM, Oracle ERP/CRM, six sigma, $14M budget, and 44 staff. • Reduced costs by $5.8M and equipment service time from 93 to 8 days using lean process improvement.

Chief AI Officer - CAIO

MBA

MS Engineering

BS Engineering