Leadership Profile · 2026
Mamatha Chamarthi.
Currently Founder & CEO, Lumiom AI.
Previously SVP Strategy & Transformation, Goodyear · SVP Software Business, Stellantis · Chief Digital Officer, ZF Friedrichshafen · CIO, Consumers Energy.
01 · The Opening
The operator who refuses theater.
Mamatha Chamarthi spent three decades inside Stellantis, Goodyear, ZF Friedrichshafen, and Consumers Energy doing what most executives only promise — translating technology into outcomes that show up in the P&L, on the timeline she committed to, in the language the board can read.
Her reputation was built on the operating floor, not in the boardroom. The work doesn't begin with a strategy deck — it begins with a forensic diagnosis of where money is being lost, and ends with the kind of operating impact that moves quarterly earnings.
$23B
software business scaled across 14 brands at Stellantis
$100M
in measurable value captured in 90 days at a Tier 1 supplier
Enterprise AI
embedded into Goodyear's operating model — not bolted onto it
“Transformation is not PowerPoint. It is operational. It is financial. It is behavioral.”
Mamatha Chamarthi
02 · Lumiom
Where everything led.
Lumiom is the platform Mamatha built to do at scale what she has spent her career doing one industrial at a time.
Her diagnosis: enterprises don't lack ambition or talent — they lack a connected, real-time view of the business they are running. By the time the action lands, the business has already moved.
Lumiom is the inversion. Real-time enterprise intelligence, read as one connected, living system. AI applied only where it moves the P&L. A value-attribution layer that makes every gain audit-ready. A Harvest-to-Invest flywheel that funds transformation from savings captured inside the existing operating base.
Already engaged with enterprise clients.
03 · The Track Record
A career built in industrial systems.
Jan 2026 →
Founder & CEO · Lumiom AI
Productizing the operating method refined across three decades — Real-Time Enterprise Intelligence built to deliver business impact.
2024 – 2025
Chief Digital Officer · Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Led the tire industry's first enterprise-scale AI transformation — embedded into the operating model, not bolted onto it.
2021 – 2024
Chief Software Business Growth Officer · Stellantis
Built and ran the software business across 14 brands and three continents — targeting €20B in revenue by 2030 and software-grade margins versus the 9–12% automotive band.
2019 – 2021
Chief Digital Information Officer · FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Set the digital strategy for the global automaker through the merger that formed Stellantis.
2014 – 2019
SVP & Chief Digital Officer · ZF Group · ZF TRW
Digitalized a $43B supplier — 137,000 employees across 40 countries. Built ZF's innovation hubs in Silicon Valley and Hyderabad.
2010 – 2013
Corporate Officer, CIO & VP · Consumers Energy
The utility's first CIO. Helped reframe a regulated energy company as a customer-value enterprise.
1996 – 2010
Successive IT & transformation roles · Chrysler · DaimlerChrysler · Daimler Financial
Fourteen years across the American automotive foundation. The decade that built the operating instinct she would later scale.
The work doesn't begin with a strategy deck. It begins with a forensic diagnosis of where money is being lost. Transformation funds itself from what's harvested. The intelligence stays inside the enterprise when she leaves.
04 · The Thesis
Why Most AI Programs Fail
Before They Start.
Four traps every enterprise AI program walks into — and the discipline that breaks them.
Trap 01
The Technology Trap
Automating broken processes faster — instead of fixing them.
Trap 02
The Data Trap
Boiling the ocean with data-hygiene programs that never end — instead of focusing on the few signals that move outcomes.
Trap 03
The Human Trap
Ignoring the 20–60–20 dynamics of change, where the middle 60% decides whether transformation lands.
Trap 04
The Consulting Trap
Relying on advisors who drop a strategy deck and walk away from execution and risk.
Harvest-to-Invest
The prescription is operational, not theoretical. AI deployed only where it moves the P&L. Every initiative measured against the financial outcome it produced. The financial engine is the Harvest-to-Invest flywheel — identify inefficiencies in the existing operating base, capture savings deliberately, use them to fund the next stage. The CFO becomes an ally, not a brake.
05 · Beyond the Boardroom
The work beyond the operating role.
Co-founder of T200, a nonprofit elevating women in technology leadership — now spanning hundreds of CXOs across major enterprises.
Board & Advisory
- Health Alliance Plan of MichiganBoard of Directors2021 – Present
- Government of TelanganaIndustry Advisor2016 – Present
- ChampionXBoard of Directors2018 – 2025
- Google Cloud PlatformAdvisory Board2019 – 2021
Recognition
- Crain's Detroit BusinessMost Influential Women2021
- Automotive News100 Leading Women in NA Auto Industry2020
- MichiganCIOCIO of the Year2020
06 · A Personal Note
Two Suitcases. Three Decades.
One arc.
Educated in psychology, sociology, and English literature in India, Mamatha taught briefly before deciding the work was too narrow. She picked up an MBA, learned computer programming, and immigrated to the United States at 24 with two suitcases. She earned a master's in computer science from Oakland University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.
Her mother founded India's first daycare center. The entrepreneurial lineage runs deep — and so does the conviction that you can do well and do good in the same career.
Let's Connect
Talk to Mamatha.
For Lumiom inquiries, board appointments, speaking engagements, and conversations on AI-led business outcomes.