Aparna Chennapragada

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States25 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led AI product strategy at Microsoft.
Founded Google Lens, impacting billions.
Expert in transforming organizations through AI.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech leader with deep expertise in AI product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAi StrategyProduct DesignLeadership

Other Skills

AI product strategyvisual AI modelsuser experience designinnovation managementM365 Copilot AppIPO leadershipmarket strategyAI and MLPeople ManagementConsumer InternetSearchPublic SpeakingBusiness Strategy

About

I translate cutting-edge AI into products people understand and want. I am currently the Chief Product Officer for AI experiences at Microsoft, leading agents for productivity. My track record includes founding Google Lens (bringing computer vision to billions), evolving YouTube’s video recommendation engine, leading critical parts of Google Search, and leading product, design and marketing at Robinhood during a period of cultural and market volatility. At Microsoft, I’ve been brought in to redefine productivity AI-first -- how LLMs can change knowledge work, decision-making, and creative flow. I bring deep expertise in AI and computer science, built over years of applying machine learning to real-world problems in search, vision, and productivity. I’ve run large orgs and held C-suite roles. What energizes me most though is the zero-to-one arc -- especially when it demands original thinking, mission clarity, and high-agency execution. I thrive when working with smart builders, ambitious misfits, believers who want to launch what doesn’t exist yet.

Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Chief Product Officer

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Inventing new AI Products
Set AI product strategy for productivity at Microsoft, an XXXB$ business.
Birthed a reimagined Copilot App for work to answer questions, find what you need, create content, and tap into a team of specialist agents that work for you out of the box.
Birthed a new AI first visual editor for work, combining the best of visual AI models and enterprise needs.
Building AI-first Playbooks
Invented the "model forward product making" playbook and launched the first reasoning agents Researcher and Analyst.
Created "Frontier", an experimental AI Labs program to build and showcase cutting edge products and models and put in the hands of our early adopter enterprise customers.
Leading and Transforming Organization
Coaching and transforming the enterprise productivity organization with its decades of rich applications expertise and legacy to rapidly adopt a model forward mindset, one launch at a time.

AI product strategyproduct managementvisual AI modelsProduct ManagementAI Strategy

Corporate Vice President

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Defined and led reimagination of M365 Copilot App as a digital chief of staff for you at work going beyond Chat, and expand to answering questions, finding files/people/meetings you need, keeping you prepared and informed for the week and more.
Pivoted AI efforts in visual creation toward the industry's first AI-first visual editor for images and designs
Helped shape Copilot+PC to be the best device for visual creation and editing using local compute and models.

AI product strategyM365 Copilot AppProduct ManagementAI Strategy

Department of computer science, the university of texas at austin

Advisory Council Member

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Ebay

Board Member

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Member of Tech Committee. Advise management team on AI and Product strategy.

Robinhood

Chief Product Officer

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

As CPO, led the company through IPO, expanded product lines beyond trading into retirement and savings products. Led PM, Design, UX Research, Marketing, BD and Corporate Development teams. Built up the leadership bench from scratch -- Recruited VP of design, director of user research, head of BD and product leaders for key areas.

Capital one

Board Member

Mar 2018 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Served as a member of the Board of Directors of Capital One. Member of Compensation committee and Risk committee. Advised on AI and Tech strategy

product managementIPO leadershipProduct ManagementLeadership

Google

5 roles

Vice President

Oct 2017 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Founder of Google Lens (started the effort from scratch and recruited and led Engineering, AI and ML, PM, UX, Ops, Strategy) to help users "search what they see" billions of times every month.
VP and GM for Consumer Shopping experiences across Google.
VP and GM for Augmented Reality experiences across Google and drove the company strategy and execution on innovative AR experiences in Google Search and Maps.

Technical Advisor to the CEO

Promoted

May 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

First Technical and Product Advisor to the CEO at Google/Alphabet.
Formulated and helped drive company-wide product strategy for critical areas such as AI, Assistant and Search.
Designed and ran weekly company-wide product strategy and experience deep dive reviews across Search, Maps, Android, Pixel, Communication apps and more.
Advised CEO and senior leaders on product roadmaps, annual strategy plan and Google I/O strategy, product announcements and narrative
Worked closely with the office of CEO on external leadership hiring and corporate development.
Initiated a new cross-org operational model "squads" to build cohesive products that span teams and orgs e.g. News experiences and algorithms across Search and YouTube, Camera intelligence across Pixel, Maps and Search etc.

AI and MLproduct managementProduct ManagementAI Strategy

Director/ Group Product Manager, Google Now

Promoted

May 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Lead a set of efforts at Google to make your phone contextual, predictive, and much more useful.

Senior Product Manager/ Product Manager, Google Search

Promoted

May 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

As Product Leader in Search, led 3 big areas (local, multimedia and personal).
Revamped Personal Search as a conversational assistant that answers questions about your own world.
Improved Local Search on Google by adding structured data, new user experience and better ranking.
Shipped 10+ features that impact millions of users and hundreds of millions of searches
Seasoned presenter -- spoke at conferences, press interviews, part of Google executive speaker bureau
Managed teams of product managers and led teams with 100+ engineers, BD, ops and designers.

Product Manager

Jul 2008 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led team of 30 research scientists/engineers to productize research into user-facing features in YouTube and Google.
Went from 0 launches to 15+ launches in 1 year
Killed low-impact low-return projects, turned around team to few big bets on monetization and search
Impact: $XXM/year in YouTube revenue, hundred of thousands/day usage impact on video discovery
Launched 20+ labs features, including a few acclaimed in WSJ, BBC, and US News
Awarded patents on product features to improve ads targeting and video classification

Various

Angel Investor and Advisor

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 2 mos

Angel Investor and Advisor to tech startups.

Akamai technologies

Architect

Jan 1999 – Jan 2008 · 9 yrs

Formulated Akamai’s mobile investment thesis, analyzed industry landscape, identified startups, did due diligence
Architected Analytics platform to provide insights to Akamai customers on site performance
Designed and built software that measures service-level-agreement compliance, avoiding potential third-party solutions
Led team building software running on 3000+ servers across the world, used for sales for Fortune 500 clients