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Ronika Lewis

Business & Technology Executive w/$100B+ exit | Google Cloud AI alum | Forbes Inaugural STEM Champion | CHIEF SF Founding Member

Los Altos, California

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Work Experience

  • CEO

    2006

    *Current focus areas: - AI Agents on Multimodal Models and Task LLMs - Research (i.e. gene therapies) - Robotics (Physical AI) - GenAI and LLM evaluation and auditing - Creating Digital Twins via NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim - Jetson GenAI at the Edge Ronika’s a hands-on customer centric technical executive with elite business acumen and transformative, award-winning expertise in the areas of Enterprise Business transformation (ERP, SCM, HCM, EPM, et al), Cloud migration (OCI, GCP, AWS, Azure, Multicloud), digitization and business automation (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) as a Customer Chief AI Officer, CIO, CTO, or CPO. Ronika also leads Security, Data Governance, Compliance, Privacy, Risk, & Audit assessments for IPOs, M&A’s, et al. Previous clients across High Tech, Big Tech, Pharma, Life Sciences/BioTech, MedTech, CPG, Utilities, Financial Services, AgTech, et al **RLI operates as a joint implementation partner with Big 4 Consulting Firms, other GSIs. and CSPs driving successful customer outcomes.**.

  • General Partner - Chief AI Officer

    2021

    711 Ventures invests in founders with momentum who believe in solving hard problems at scale. We invest intellectual and social capital in their earliest stages, leveraging 3 decades of experience in innovation, across business, AI, and tech in general. Some of the latest investments include: - Lambda Labs (Enterprise Cloud AI GPUs)🦄 - LastMile AI (Enterprise AI LLMs for SMBs) - AudioMob (AI Gaming Audio AdTech) - SoloFunds (FinTech Lending) - Syrup Tech (Supply Chain AI) - Audioshake (AI Media & Entertainment) - ThreatKey (AI+Cybersecurity) Acquired💰 - Mansa (Media & Entertainment) - StatusPro (Gaming + Spatial AR/VR) 🏆Emmy nominated - Allara (Women’s Health) - FilmHedge (FinTech for M&E) 🏆 - Boddle Learning (AI EdTech) and more.

2020 - 2023

  • Engineering Product Management (Cloud AI)

    2020 - 2023

    Founding Engineering Product Leader (GM responsibilities) for New Tech Introduction (NTI) & New Product Introduction (NPI) of GDC-H, a fully managed hosted High Performance Computing (HPC) HW Infrastructure + Software Product with AI/ML throughout the stack for National Security, Intelligence Communities, Defense customers globally, and other edge computing customers across Telecom, Retail, et al. Under Ronika’s leadership, the GDC-H -Lighthouse customer, US DoD (Aerospace JWCC mission), awarded Google a $9B IDIQ contract Note: My team's success came after two previous L8 Directors failed to make any progress. - Also captured $100B+ in non-cancellable revenue contracts globally within 18 months of conception (FY22Q4), proving product market fit. Exit: The product did so well it became it’s own company, Google Public Sector Other Notables: Product Leader that landed Google Cloud Anthos Multi-Cloud as a new category leader in Gartner MQ & Forrester. Addt’l Scope: - Product Leader for managed Kubernetes w/Vertex AI (+ portfolio of 30 Developer products) - Chief Evangelist for Google Cloud Certified Fellows (Google’s external Expert Developer Community by invite only)

  • Head of Logistics Operations Strategy and Analytics (eCommerce)

    2020 - 2020

  • Executive Director (AI/ML, LLM Ops)

    2017 - 2017

    Partnered with client CIO and CFO, while leading Product & Engineering teams (onsite & remote in India) across strategic customers’ business transformation initiatives in core engineering, finance, and AI data product, focused on: - Conversational AI Chatbot using Mosaic AI - AI/ML Ops (LLM, NLP, Robotics, Prescriptive Analytics) - Initial SRE and DevOps team (based on Hybrid Home Depot and Google SRE framework) using proprietary Mosaic AI DevOps platform - CI/CD (Jenkins, Mavens) - Data Science (Mosaic DS platform now Mosaic AI) - Robust Business Intelligence/Analytics (Tableau, Qlik, Informatica ETL) - Data Observability (Splunk, Apache Kafka) - Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Awards: Preferred Vendor

2014 - 2014

  • Executive Director (Customer Digital) - Office of the CIO

    2014 - 2014

2007 - 2014

  • Executive Product Advisor to CMO

    2007 - 2014

    Member of the Elite Mercedes Benz Advisors Group providing product and GTM strategy for next gen consumer market revenue growth

2011 - 2011

  • NA CRM Practice Lead - Oracle CRM & Analytics (US & Canada)

    2011 - 2011

    BioPharma/Therapeutics

2009 - 2010

  • Head of Product & Data Engineering

    2009 - 2010

    - Partnered with client COO & CAO to design, develop, and Implement Executive Enterprise Analytics and Data Visualization Dashboard to meet regulatory compliance mandates. - Led a team of Sr Engineering Product Management leaders, Distinguished Software Engineers, Sr UX/UI designers and cross functional teams for integration of Lehman Brothers Wealth into Barclays Wealth IT Americas new product launch of a digital platform during M&A. - Led Wealth IT into compliance for Federal audit reporting post-merger. - Founding PM leader for Digital broker platform used to enter trades (decommissioned manual paper tickets).

2008 - 2009

  • CRM Practice Lead (Siebel CRM & Analytics)

    2008 - 2009

    Customer facing Exec onsite that led the Tyco/ADT digital transformation of the Sales and Marketing business functions and enterprise systems. Biometric scans and federal background checks required daily for entry.

2006 - 2008

  • Customer CTO (Siebel CRM & Analytics)

    2006 - 2008

    Technical Deployment Lead for DirecTV National Digital Transformation in preparation for AT&T acquisition.