Ramya Ravichandar, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty

Duke University Pratt School of Engineering · Durham, North Carolina, United States

Jul 2024 – Present(1 yr 10 mos)

Founder • Fractional CPO & AI Advisor

EcoX AI Consulting · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Jun 2024 – Present(1 yr 11 mos)

Founder of EcoX AI Consulting, a fractional CPO firm helping services-heavy software businesses fix product execution and scale product revenue under growth and PE pressure. I embed as senior product leadership to establish clear ownership, roadmap discipline, and execution cadence—especially in environments where bespoke delivery, margin compression, or diligence scrutiny expose operating risk. AI is treated as a forcing function, not the solution. We use diagnostics (including Helix™ where appropriate) to baseline product and AI maturity, then drive change through leadership, operating systems, and execution—not pilots. Representative outcomes include: * Improved delivery predictability and execution clarity * Increased adoption of core product capabilities * Clearer separation between services revenue and scalable product revenue * Work spans product operating system design, product due diligence (pre/post deal), GTM and pricing alignment, and post-close value creation for VC- and PE-backed companies across PropTech, CleanTech, and industrial software.

Chief Member

Chief

May 2024 – Sep 2025(1 yr 5 mos)

Vice President Of Product Management, Smart Buildings & IOT

JLL · San Francisco, California, United States

Oct 2020 – May 2025(4 yrs 8 mos)

Tenure: 2020–2025 Led product strategy across IoT, AI/ML, and Smart Building & Sustainability data platforms, scaling solutions from concept to multi-million-dollar growth. Revenue: 21 F100 logos; 2× YoY via land-and-expand + platform attach. Ops: AI facilities optimization → 5–25% labor, 10–20% energy, ~15% productivity. Product OS: Agile + governance → +35% predictability, +50% adoption. VC: GTM, pricing, partner activation; product/tech DD informing theses. M&A: Market map → DD → post-close integration → Decarbonization Suite; LaSalle climate-risk advisory. Media: WSJ-quoted; WaPo Live; MIT/CREtech/CTBUH; VentureBeat/JLL

Vice President

FogHorn Systems, Inc · Sunnyvale, CA

2018 – Oct 2020(2 yrs 10 mos)

Ramya Ravichandar is the Vice President of Products at FogHorn responsible for building, creating and scaling disruptive IOT products and solutions. In this role, she is responsible for setting the company’s product strategy, defining product positioning, and envisioning user experiences. In her role, Ramya has launched groundbreaking new product lines and solutions for manufacturing, energy, smart buildings, fleet and other enterprise IOT verticals, positioning FogHorn as a leader in EdgeAI. She has played a pivotal role in scaling the company size 4x, and has anchored the growth of the start up through multiple funding rounds. She continues to be excited about disrupting traditional industries to build a more sustainable planet.

Director Product Management

FogHorn Systems, Inc · Mountain View, California

2016 – 2018(2 yrs)

Head Product Management & Strategy. FogHorn Systems develops real-time edge-intelligence products for industrial internet applications. FogHorn technology is embraced by the world’s leading Industrial Internet innovators and major players in cloud computing, high performance edge gateways, and IoT systems integration.

Sr. Product Line Manager - Streaming Analytics Platform & IOT Analytics

Cisco

2013 – 2015(2 yrs)

Creating New IOT Products: Delivered from concept to commit, the world’s first Edge Manufacturing Analytics Offer. Led user requirements discovery workshops, customer driven ROI analysis, and deal negotiations with leading machine builders to establish an OEM GTM strategy. Establishing Market Presence: Managed, evolved, and established CSA (Connected Streaming Analytics) in the Big Data Streaming Analytics Platform market; Forrester ranks CSA as a strong performer with the remark that it has “sweet spots that differentiates the solution” from the rest of the vendors. Bloor states that “CSA is an innovative streaming solution”.

Product Manager - Collaboration Technologies

Cisco

2011 – 2013(2 yrs)

• New Market Identification: Identified new market segment of agile users for the sales of Cisco Telepresence Units and collaboration technologies. • Technical Product Manager for Cisco Webex: Responsibilities included identifying and prioritizing market requirements, providing business commits to executive management, defining the vision, strategy, roadmap, running release planning; also groomed backlog, wrote user stories, and formulated acceptance criteria in collaboration with architects and test leads to deliver products that met market demands. • Minimum Viable Product: Expertise in identifying key features and driving GTM urgency.

Agile Lean at Cisco Leader

Cisco · San Jose, CA

2009 – 2011(2 yrs)

Lead on the Agile Lean at Cisco Program. Responsible for creating content, deployment, and effective adoption of Agile development and Lean practices across Cisco's Development Organization. Also innovating in areas such as Agile for Hardware, Agile Metrics, Agile for Leadership and Business.

Advisory Software Engineer

Cisco · San Jose CA

2008 – 2009(1 yr)

Focused on deploying organization-wide quality initiatives to prevent recurrence of systematic defects, improve existing software processes, and enhance engineering productivity. Other priorities include working on Agile standards, and defining new-style retrospectives.

Research Intern

IBM Research Labs

May 2007 – Aug 2007(4 mos)

Worked on a confidential research project in SOA.