From Clean Data to AI-Driven Advantage with General Mills Chief Digital & Technology Officer Jaime Montemayor

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On the 58th episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser ( Abnormal AI ) and Saam Motamedi ( Greylock Partners ) talk with Jaime Montemayor , Chief Digital & Technology Officer at General Mills . They’re reimagining what a food company can be by leveraging AI to reduce waste, tailor marketing, optimize supply chains, and accelerate product innovation. Jaime shares how strategic clarity, cloud-first infrastructure, and clean data enabled these AI transformations, and why being a hands-on, tech-forward CIO is essential to leading through change. Quick hits from Jaime: On operational AI scale: "As of today, we have thousands of those machine learning models running day in and day out in the company. And with those models, our teams have the benefit of being able to do predictive analytics to run their business on a day-to-day basis.” On generative AI adoption: “Up to 30 percent of our workforce is using this new technology consistently. We have some functions like HR... the use rate goes all the way to 65, 75 percent...

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