Ronika Lewis
General Partner at 711 Ventures
Ronika Lewis
General Partner at 711 Ventures
Los Altos, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2006 - Current
*Current focus areas: - GenAI and LLM evaluation and auditing - Creating Digital Twins via NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim - Jetson GenAI at the Edge Customer obsessed technical executive with elite business acumen and expertise in the areas of Enterprise Business transformation (ERP, SCM, etc.) and automation (RPA) as an Interim/Fractional Chief AI Officer, CIO, CTO, or CPO. (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Data, AI/ML). Also leads Security, Data Governance, Compliance, Privacy, Risk, & Audit assessments for IPOs, M&A’s, et al.
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 nearly 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) - Mansa (Media & Entertainment) - StatusPro (Gaming + Spatial AR/VR) - Allara (Women’s Health) - FilmHedge (FinTech for M&E) - Boddle Learning (AI EdTech) and more.
Engineering Product Management Leader (Cloud AI, HPC)
2020 - 2023
Founding Engineering Compliance Product Leader for New Tech Introduction (NTI) & New Product Introduction (NPI) of GDC-H, a High Performance Computing (HPC) HW Infrastructure + Software Product with AI/ML throughout the stack for National Security, Intelligence Communities, and Department of Defense customers globally. The GDC-H lighthouse customer, US DoD (Aerospace JWCC mission), awarded Google a $9B IDIQ contract. GDC-H also captured $100B+ in non-cancellable revenue contracts globally within 18 months of conception (FY22Q4), proving product market fit. Other Notables: Product Leader that landed Google Cloud Anthos Multi-Cloud (an API into GCP) 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)
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 Chatbot w/AI 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
Executive Director (Customer Digital) - Office of the CIO
2014 - 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
NA CRM Practice Lead - Oracle CRM & Analytics (US & Canada)
2011 - 2011
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).
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.
Field CTO (Siebel CRM & Analytics)
2006 - 2008
Technical Deployment Lead for DirecTV National Digital Transformation in preparation for AT&T acquisition.