Cal Lennon

Cal Lennon

Product Leader — AI, Supply Chain & Operations

Product leader with 15+ years building and scaling AI/ML and operations platforms that turn complex, high-stakes logistics and analytics problems into efficient, automated systems used across global organizations.

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Enterprise Impact

Transformed manual processes into automated workflows, saving 20+ hours/week of analyst time and cutting time-to-value from months to weeks.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Aligned 15+ teams around unified objectives, building consensus across organizations with competing priorities.

Operational Excellence

Delivered $50M+ in cost savings through ML-driven optimization while scaling teams from 13 to 60+.

  • Spearheaded product strategy for the CoreAI platform from conception to launch, transforming consulting-based econometric modeling into a scalable SaaS platform.
  • Partnered with economists, ML researchers, and industry experts to translate R&D into enterprise tools; led a team of engineers, data scientists, and researchers.
  • Built a platform that automates complex analytical workflows previously requiring 6–9 months of custom work, reducing time-to-value to 4–6 weeks.
  • Designed an API-first architecture supporting Snowflake, Databricks, and SAP integrations for deployment across complex enterprise environments.
  • Led the roadmap for routing, fulfillment, and labor planning systems, unifying resource allocation across 15+ fulfillment centers.
  • Embedded ML and simulation capabilities across operational systems, automating decisions once made manually and reducing operational costs by $50M+.
  • Managed a 15+ person team across engineering, data science, and operations, aligning stakeholders on aggressive timelines.
  • Built capacity-aware routing systems that dynamically allocated resources against real-time constraints while maintaining service levels.
  • Built a simulation/forecasting platform serving Finance, Transportation, and Operations, supporting billions of dollars in inventory decisions.
  • Developed novel sampling strategies that cut computational requirements by 88% while maintaining under 1% error, enabling real-time decision support.
  • Grew the organization from 13 to 60 engineers and scientists, establishing processes for efficient collaboration.
  • Eliminated 20+ hours/week of manual adjustments through automated bias-correction models, improving accuracy by 50%.
  • Developed an 18–24 month forecasting system serving as the single source of truth for enterprise planning across NA, EU, and APAC.
  • Built cross-functional relationships across Finance, Transportation, and Operations to unify forecasting and eliminate siloed planning.
  • Established the foundational data infrastructure processing terabytes of historical data for model training and validation.
  • Maintained 5% MAPE while supporting 400M+ ASINs across 200+ fulfillment centers.

Early Career

The Sports Authority — Senior Product & E-Commerce Operations Manager (2004–2013). Led 3PL strategy and omnichannel systems integration; owned e-commerce P&L and vendor management.

Asylum Motorsports — Co-Owner/Founder (2002–2004). Built a direct-to-consumer e-commerce business.