Pradeep Kanagaraj

✨ Operational and strategic partner to the Chief AI Officer, serving as the COO of Ensemble's Global AI Innovation Center across the U.S., Egypt, and India — driving end-to-end strategy, operations, and execution to accelerate Ensemble's AI-driven transformation. 🔄 Led post-acquisition integration of Mendel's talent, data infrastructure, and AI assets into Ensemble, accelerating innovation and revenue growth. 🔗 Serve as the primary interface between Ensemble's AI Innovation Center and core enterprise functions — HR, Finance, Legal, IT, Security, and Vendor Management — ensuring seamless global operations across the US, Egypt, and India with strong fiscal discipline and regulatory compliance. 🤖 Drive strategic planning and execution for deploying AI solutions across Ensemble's business units, aligning global research and engineering efforts to enterprise priorities and operational goals. 🚀 Serve as the Operational General Manager for Mendel Egypt, overseeing 100+ professionals in AI data labeling, clinical informatics, and knowledge graph development to build high-quality data assets powering enterprise AI models. 🌍 Designed and implemented a global talent model positioning Egypt as a cost-effective, high-quality AI data hub. ⚙️ Deployed AI agents and computer-use automations across recruiting, program management, and operational workflows — reducing candidate outreach costs from $55+/hr to $0.07/contact, achieving 93–96% cost savings and becoming the basis of a published Forbes article.

🏗️ Designed and institutionalized the Mendel Operating System — defining meeting cadences, executive dashboards, decision frameworks, and cross-functional review structures that became the operational backbone for 150+ employees. 🎯 Created the Qualume Score framework (featured in Forbes) — a performance measurement system balancing quality and volume that improved team productivity from <30% to >100% and boosted retention by 20%. 📈 Implemented OKiR and OKR frameworks (featured in Forbes), increasing goal attainment by 30% and establishing quarterly planning rituals aligned to annual and long-range milestones. 💰 Led headcount allocation and workforce planning across global teams; negotiated $2.5M in procurement savings through financial modeling and vendor optimization. 🌍 Scaled the global AI Innovation Center across the US & Egypt— growing the organization from 61 to 150+ employees while maintaining <3% turnover and improving employee satisfaction by 13%. 🔐 Drove SOC 2 Type 2 certification and led post-acquisition integration of Mendel into Ensemble, spanning HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and Security.

🚴 Served as Chief of Staff to the CTO, providing operational and strategic support to an 800+ person Technology organization with a $300M+ annual budget. 📊 Built rhythm-of-business processes, annual planning cadences, and organizational review structures for the CTO's office — directly improving 2022 Engagement Survey scores by 11% (from 68% to 79%). 💰 Led cross-functional headcount and budget initiatives as part of Peloton's restructuring committee, delivering $50M in cost savings while maintaining team alignment during a critical company transition. 🎯 Introduced micro P&Ls and OKR alignment across product groups, increasing accountability and measurable goal attainment across the Technology org. 🏆 Designed and launched the Technology Impact Awards and DEI programs, achieving 88% self-ID participation and 14% higher management engagement scores.

☁️ Negotiated a $250M, three-year cloud platform contract 55% below GCP list rates and led Aurora's full infrastructure migration from Google Cloud to AWS, delivering $50M+ in savings. 🚗 Managed quarterly OKRs for Technology Platform teams, improving key result attainment by 20% and delivering the Data & Machine Learning Platform powering Aurora's autonomous trucking systems. 📦 Drove data retention, BI platform, and data democratization policies — aligning infrastructure investments to evolving research and engineering priorities across a rapidly scaling org.