The Canadian Athleisure company Lululemon has appointed Ranju the first chief ai and technology officer. The company wants to use artificial intelligence to improve product innovation and personalize the customer experience.
This has more than two decades of leadership experience in the scaling of global companies and the promotion of AI innovations in healthcare, financial technology and consumer technology. It brings “profound experience” in company systems, digital innovation as well as AI and machine learning to Lululemon.
He will come to Lululemon on September 2 and take over the management of the company’s technology organization. He will also drive the development and implementation of the next phase of Lululemon’s technology and AI strategy. He will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer Calvin McDonald.
“We see an exciting opportunity to continue using AI and technology to promote our product innovation process; to improve our agility and speed in market launch and to offer our guests more commitment and personalization,” says McDonald. “Ranjus broad specialist knowledge and his proven track record in the management of large technology and AI transformations make him the ideal person to drive this work at Lululemon and to raise our technology organization to the next level.”
The ‘experience as Chief Executive and founder of Swan Ai Studios is one of the experience. There he led the development of the latest AI platforms and applications in various industries. Before that, he was Chief Executive of Optumlabs, the research and development branch of the Unitedhealth Group. There he led transformative AI and data-controlled initiatives in health and insurance. For almost eight years he worked for Amazon as General Manager for Amazon Ai Services, where he developed and scaled some of the company’s most important AI offers.
To his new role said: “I am pleased to join Lululemon on the way to the company’s technology transformation. The opportunity to use the technology and AI in the entire value chain of retail in order to improve the way we serve our guests. To promote AI strategies of the company.
In addition, Lululemon announced that the Chief Information Officer, Julie Averill, will leave the company in September as part of a “planned change of management” in order to pursue other ways.
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