Mani Gopalakrishnan

Secured $300MM in Capex and $60MM Opex/Year over 4 years by creating a multi-year digital & agile transformation roadmap for Kraft Heinz Established both the digital hub and the agile COE Achieved ~$30MM in value generation within the first year; Grew from 3 to 15 pods Created a 130+ member by establishing a talent war room with focus on end-to-end talent strategy across L&D, Performance, Recruitment, Succession, EVP, and established the Data Engineering, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Agile, Design, Product Management, and Software Engineering chapters Co-led the media factory capabilities with the ability to execute - eCommerce, retail media, programmatic and social campaigns Grew the 1st P data by 35% in the first year, and built Kraft-o-matic – a React/Django powered software that offered AI-powered segmentations and campaign recommendations; implemented Google Cloud, Lytics CDP, and LiveRamp Data Clean Room Unlocked 1.2% OnTime/InFull (~$30MM value in Year 1) by building a control tower and transforming the supply ways of working logistics, warehouse, transportation, and planning and execution; Demand, Supply and Manufacturing IT/OT Transformation work is in progress Enabled $7MM of savings by building analytical solutions in direct spend categorization, cost-modeling, and regression modeling various specs of products used across Kraft Heinz Founded Evolv – new business incubator; Piloted 6+ DTC business ideas, led the M&A of Wellio – tech startup in California, scaled from 6–30-member team, built Meal Hero – a personalized meal-planning app with seamless connection to grocery ecommerce, AI Powered Food Intelligence Platform, and commercialized it via a partner ecosystem. Rebuilt Kraft Recipes into myFoodandFamily platform; Grew the 1st P data from 13.6MM to 17MM; Achieved 1B+ social media impressions and 100MM visits/year Managed eCommerce Infrastructure including Salsify PIM, Shopify, OpenText DAM, SKAVA platform etc.