Rama Ramakrishnan

Co-Founder

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States31 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

MIT PhD with extensive experience in AI/ML.
Founder of a successful retail technology company.
Senior leadership roles in top tech firms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on data science and analytics.

Contact

Skills

Other Skills

Operations ResearchData MiningPredictive ModelingPredictive AnalyticsAnalyticsMachine LearningStatistical ModelingData AnalysisCloud ComputingProduct ManagementRBusiness IntelligenceBig DataPythonOptimization

About

Entrepreneur-and-tech-exec-turned-mitsloan-professor. MIT PhD, IIT Madras undergrad. Trying to demystify AI/ML at http://ai.ramakrishnan.com. Erdos number 3 :-).

Experience

31 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Mit sloan school of management

Professor of the Practice

Jun 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

Salesforce

Senior Vice President, Data Science, Commerce Cloud

Jun 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Cambridge and Burlington, Massachusetts

Demandware

SVP/Chief Data Scientist

Oct 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Burlington and Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cquotient

Founder and CEO

Jul 2010 – Oct 2014 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

UPDATE on October 14, 2014
I am pleased to announce that CQuotient was acquired by Demandware (NYSE: DWRE).
Press release at http://www.demandware.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/1977320.
Some press coverage:
BostInno (http://bit.ly/1wU3NQN)
Boston Business Journal (http://bit.ly/1wU3IMS)
The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/1wcNBct)
Xconomy (http://bit.ly/1wU3zsZ)
CQuotient offered retailers breakthrough technology for personalization and was backed by Bain Capital Ventures (http://www.baincapitalventures.com/).

Mit sloan school of management

Senior Lecturer

Feb 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

Oracle

Chief Analytics Officer, Oracle Retail

Aug 2005 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

ProfitLogic was acquired by Oracle in July 2005. In addition to being the Chief Analytics Officer, I was also the Vice-President of Product Development for all analytic products for the Retail business unit of Oracle.

Profitlogic

Chief Scientist and VP, R&D

Apr 2003 – Jul 2005 · 2 yrs 3 mos

ProfitLogic developed software to help retailers make better merchandising decisions. The software used cutting-edge math including statistics, machine learning and optimization to inform and support key decisions retailers have to make every day such as figuring out what and how much to buy, how to price and how to promote.
As Chief Scientist, I had final responsibility for the science that powered the software.