Swarna Kuruganti

Swarna Kuruganti formerly led Enterprise AI at US Foods. She currently serves as an executive AI advisor as the Managing Partner at Sparked Insights, to help achieve organization-wide AI adoption or to turnaround a failing AI ROI strategy. Drawing on 16 years of leading enterprise AI adoption, and a total of 25+ years in transformation leadership, including global shared services & outsourcing, Swarna brings portfolio discipline to AI investments needed to drive transformative change in GBS organizations. She helps choose the right bets quickly by employing proven frameworks for complex decisions such as executive alignment, investment prioritization, and capability building. She helps cut through complexity to achieve measurable returns matched to capital and capability realities, with effective operating models, governance and deployment approaches. Her most recent success was at US Foods. Conference speaker (The Economist, Process Excellence Network, SSON) and industry writer (CXOTech, PEX, American Stroke Association).