Innowaring Labs

I help enterprise startups and organizations transform their operating models for AI-native innovations and unlock growth.

For enterprise tech startups, I can help you set up your product organization as an Interim CPO in an embedded role. 

For enterprise technology teams, I can help you implement and refine the product operating model to unlock AI-native innovation within your IT teams through workshops, coaching, and consulting engagements.

Founder and Owner

Axonal .AI

I lead the product strategy, GTM solutions and operations for domain-specific AI products tailored for Life Sciences commercial workflows.

Chief Product Officer

ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte

Managing Director

Vice President Of Product Development

Senior Product Manager

Deloitte

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Deloitte Consulting Innovation Practice
- Healthcare Technology Products
- Health Information Management
- Health Informatics
- Strategy and Planning

Senior Manager

Beckman Coulter, Inc.

Corporate Strategy Planning
- Competive Strategy 
- Business Planning
- New Market Entry

MBA Intern - Corporate Strategy Planning

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

IT Consultant
- Analysis\Design\Development of IBM ISeries software

IT Consultant

Hi, I’m Amarinder.

I help organizations move beyond AI hype and into execution—by building AI-native systems that deliver real business value.

As Chief Product Officer at Axonal AI, I lead the design of LLM-powered products and agent workflows that are transforming life sciences marketing. My focus is on integrating foundational models into enterprise environments—not as a feature, but as a shift in how work gets done and how jobs-to-be-done are reimagined.

I’m also the founder of Innowaring Labs, a consultancy that helps enterprise tech organizations and startups evolve their operating models for innovation—by aligning strategy, product, and systems thinking.

Earlier in my career, I helped build and scale ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte into a $250M+ ARR software products and services business. That journey—from IT delivery to product-centric teams—taught me what it really takes to lead innovation inside a large enterprise environment.

I captured many of those lessons in my book, Becoming a Software Company—a guide for enterprise leaders navigating the shift to product thinking.

Today, my work lives at the intersection of AI, health tech, systems innovation, and digital transformation. I thrive when working with teams serious about building software systems that transform how industry-focused workflows.

Amarinder Sidhu

Walmart

-Strategic Leadership & Global Impact: Lead a global 25-member Data Product, Governance, and Strategy team, overseeing 100+ resources to deliver AI-powered data governance frameworks that enhanced compliance, reduced operational risks, and unlocked $3B+ in quarterly business value. Partnered with C-suite executives to drive enterprise-wide data maturity, enabling strategic decision-making across merchandising, analytics, and AI/ML initiatives.

-AI-Driven Innovation & Efficiency: Pioneered the adoption of Generative AI (ChatGPT 3.5/4) and Agentic AI to revolutionize data stewardship and self-service capabilities, significantly enhancing automation, reducing manual intervention, and driving seamless data accessibility across business units.  

-Data Culture & Community Building: Established transformative data stewardship initiatives, including the Citizen Data Stewards program (~50 members) and a Data Support Channel (~700 contributors), fostering an enterprise-wide data-first culture and enabling decentralized governance models.  

-Leadership Recognition & Growth: Earned two prestigious performance awards and successfully graduated from Walmart’s Gateway Leadership Development Program, reflecting demonstrated leadership excellence and the ability to drive strategic organizational change.  

-Advanced Technology Ecosystem Management: Orchestrated a complex, multi-cloud data ecosystem, seamlessly integrating GCP, Azure, BigQuery, BigLake, Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, SQL, Python, Collibra, Lineage, Metadata, and DQAF to enable end-to-end data governance, analytics, and AI/ML innovation.

Director of Data Product  Governance and Strategy 

Strategy, Artificial intelligence, Data, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Science, and Governance Advisor to companies, startups Venture capital and leaders.

Strategy Data AI Analytics and Governance 

Bill.com

•	Organizational Growth: Built and scaled a 10-member BI & Analytics team, driving automation and predictive analytics that optimized financial operations and contributed to a $219B total payment volume. Established executive-level reporting frameworks, enhancing strategic visibility and decision-making across finance and risk management.
•	Operational Excellence: Implemented automation for data and report delivery, enhancing stakeholder access and efficiency.
•	Governance & Integrity: Standardized data practices, improving visibility and integrity through robust data modeling, architecture, and governance.
•	Compliance & Strategy: Established data governance best practices to align with legal, compliance, security, and strategic objectives.
•	Technology Stack: Leveraged AWS, Redshift, QuickSight, Tableau, Looker, SQL, Python, and Atlan to build a scalable data infrastructure.

Sr. Director BI & Analytics

BlueVine

•	Revenue Growth: Built and matured a BI & Analytics team that enabled business functions to scale annual revenues to ~$120 million.
•	Critical Infrastructure: Designed and implemented a scalable data infrastructure that enabled the seamless disbursement of $4.5B in PPP funding, ensuring compliance, fraud prevention, and operational efficiency.
•	Product Development & Risk Management: Delivered key data and insights for the launch of a checking account product and implemented strategies to minimize fraud and risk.
•	Technology Stack: Utilized AWS, Redshift, Tableau, and SQL to drive data-driven decision-making.

Head (Sr. Director) BI and Analytics

HTC Vive

•	Data-Driven Culture: Established and grew a central end-to-end Data Engineering, BI/Data Science team, transforming the company into a data-driven organization.
•	Measurable Results: Enabled the sale of ~1.7 million VR headsets, increased Viveport subscription growth by 32%, and reduced churn by 16%.
•	Quality Improvement: Enhanced data quality by 34% through automated data pipelines and strategic technology adoption (Microsoft PowerBI, Azure).
•	Compliance Leadership: Led organizational compliance with GDPR and CCPA.
•	Career Advancement: Promoted from Sr. Manager to Global Director.
•	Technology Deployment: Implemented GCP, Azure, Bigquery, Analysis Services, Google DataStudio, PowerBI, SQL, and Jupyter Notebooks.

Global Director - Business Intelligence and Analytics

Deloitte Advisory

•	Team Leadership & Growth: Built a high-performing geospatial/location consulting team, expanding it from 2 to 10 members (including offshore).
•	Project Management: Led global teams (2-15+) in delivering analytics solutions, utilizing SCRUM and AGILE methodologies.
•	Technology Advocacy: Championed analytics practices, expanding corporate alliances with key vendors (AWS, Alteryx, Qlik, Esri, CARTO, Voyager Search).
•	Business Development: Tripled proposal generation output, contributing to a multi-million dollar sales pipeline.
•	Engagement Management: Managed engagement planning, budgeting, and delivery for international and domestic clients.
•	International Expansion: Expanded consulting engagements into the EU and Asia.
•	Recognition: Recipient of two performance awards.

Analytics & Geospatial Analytics Manager

Bahwan CyberTek Inc

+	Business Development and Revenue Generation - Grew largest strategic US account for services from $1.8M/ year to $3M/ year in <1 year and successfully renewed 2 other accounts.
+	Trusted Advisor - Created Strategy and Roadmap for the creation of a Business Intelligence (BI) center of excellence laying the foundation for current partnership. Alliance lead, managed various technology relationships.
+	Recognition - Winner of Silver Sales Pitch award for 2013

Business Development - Senior Executive

Alteryx

As International Business Development Manager and Country Manager, the primary focus was to facilitate entry into APAC Markets and establish the environment/ relationships (Vendors, Data suppliers etc.) to ensure entry and growth of Alteryx’s product line of Business Intelligence/ Geo-Business Intelligence tools.

+	Strategic Resource – Identified and Established close working relationships with technology, Services, and Data Vendors to enable entry and growth of the user base in APAC and India. Worked “across the hierarchy” to formulate entry strategy, identify Launchpad partners, establish marketing events and procure quick wins in (Telecom & FMCG/ CPG). Performed competitor analysis and formulated solution packages based on Alteryx technology for markets.

+	Technical Expertise – Leveraged Alteryx’s product line Analytics, Geo-analytics, ETL, business process workflow, predictive modeling and reporting. These included tools for demographics, lifestyle & segmentation data, geocoders, and drive-time engines to build “desktop to cloud” scalable analytical applications/ prototypes. Served partners and the customer base as a high-level technical resource for consultation brainstorming and solution determination.

+	User Base Development – Recruited 15 global universities across the US, Canada, and India as part of the Alteryx Educational Grant program to increase long-term Alteryx product adoption globally.

Country Manager - India & International Business Development Manager - APAC

Robert Bosch India Limited

+	Strategic Resource - Led proprietary navigational data tools development team of 6 engineers, achieved a 95% productivity level. Planned, scheduled, executed and delivered a full SDLC version and 4 product increments of a proprietary data viewer on time and within budget.
+	Project Management - Coordinated Product Quality for peer navigation data project. Coordinated communications between customers and onsite team in Germany, successfully delivered 4 major versions of product.
+	Technical Expertise - Selected as member of departmental technical expertise team for Navigation address data, GUI design, review and development, which resulted in the publication of departmental Navigation data GUI library standard.

Project Lead

Strategic data executive driving AI-powered transformations, enabling multi-billion-dollar business impact through governance, analytics, and innovation. Proven ability to partner with C-suite leaders to define and execute enterprise-wide data strategies that enhance decision-making, optimize operations, and unlock revenue opportunities. Adept at scaling high-performing data organizations, fostering a data-first culture, and leveraging AI-driven frameworks to accelerate automation and compliance.

Leveraging the power of Generative AI and Agentic AI, I am accelerating data governance and data consumption—enhancing automation, improving data stewardship, and driving intelligent decision-making at scale. By integrating AI-driven frameworks, I ensure that organizations harness the full potential of their data assets while maintaining compliance, security, and operational efficiency.

My cross-industry experience spanning Automotive, Utilities, Fintech, VR/AR, and Retail/e-commerce provides a unique, holistic perspective on data strategy, emphasizing the critical interplay of People, Technology, Data, Algorithms, Processes, and Governance. I excel at:

-Strategic Leadership: Aligning data initiatives with business goals to drive measurable outcomes.  
-Organizational Transformation: Scaling and maturing data organizations to achieve operational excellence.  
-AI-Powered Data Democratization & Innovation: Implementing cutting-edge methodologies, including Generative AI and Agentic AI, to enhance data accessibility, automation, and self-service.  
-Governance & Compliance: Ensuring data strategies meet stringent regulatory, domain, and security requirements.  

With a track record of successfully leading complex projects across Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Governance, AI/ML, Data Science, and Data Engineering, I am passionate about demystifying data and analytics through thought leadership, mentorship, and AI-driven innovation. My academic foundation—including an AI PGD from McCombs (UT Austin), Stanford LEAD Leadership Certification, an MBA from UC Irvine, and a Bachelor’s in Information Science Engineering—equips me to drive transformative data strategies and achieve significant organizational impact.

Goal: To leverage my extensive experience and strategic vision as a Chief Data & Analytics Officer or similar senior executive, driving end-to-end value creation through AI-enhanced, data-informed decision-making.

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