Profile & Experience

as also Asian countries and the Middle East. The key verticals of interest are Energy and Renewables, Physical Infrastructure sectors, Agri-processing industries and Horticulture, Clean water technologies and. Water resources Management, Waste management and Waste to energy. Ashwani's formal education has been in technology (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) and International Business Management. In a professional career spanning about twenty five years, in both developed and emerging markets, he has been involved with the IT services and Telecom industries, Management, Business Transformation and IT Consulting and Market advisory and cross border business development.

He started his career in the Information Systems Management Group of General Electric, US and rapidly progressed to leadership positions in Inc 500 firms in the US. He led the formation of a technology Joint Venture between his firm, MTC, owners of a proprietary data mining technology and Dow Jones for ease of handling diverse and voluminous data in the financial markets and providing data analytics to aid informed business decisions.

Ashwani moved to International Equity Partners, LLP in the mid 90's, Managing India outbound business from the US. His work experience of over five years with IEP helped him to develop strong relationship management skills leveraging key alliances with senior political, bureaucratic and corporate decision makers in India to facilitate market entry and identify potential Indian partners for IEP's fortune 200 transnational corporations. He was instrumental in initiating joint ventured in Power, Telecommunications and physical infrastructure sectors like ports, roads and bridges. His client services portfolio included Westinghouse, Bell Atlantic, US West, American Electric Power, Cogentrix, CMS Energy and MCN Energy.

He then moved to India in 2000 as part of the core team which set up a Greenfield USD 8Bn Telecom infrastructure and services group company, Reliance Infocomm, of the largest Indian conglomerate, Reliance Industries. He led conceptualization and formation of the Government Enterprise Business Group with full P+L and organizational management responsibility. He pioneered the Public-Private Partnership ( PPP) Go-to-Market business and implementation model with both the federal and State Governments in India. As a representative of India's leading private player in the Telecom space, he played a key role in the development and subsequent implementation of the National governance action Plan (NeGAP), a ten year USD 2 Billion partnership between The World Bank and the Federal Government of India.

After a decade long association with the IT and Telecom group company of the Reliance Group, Ashwani moved onto spearheading an initiative to bring technology to bear in healthcare by conceptualizing and leading the mHealth initiative in India and Asia of the leading pharma and consumer products major, Johnson and Johnson, Inc.

Ashwani is a regular speaker at technology, governance, outsourcing, mhealth events both nationally and internationally. He has been an invited speaker at the e-India summit in 2006 thru 2008 and the World Bank sponsored eInclusion conclave in 2009. He has also served as a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) committee on IT and sub-committee on Egovernance, and has also served as an office bearer of NASSCOM. He has also been a member of a select Committee of the World Bank for eInitiatives in India. His other professional memberships include the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE) and the Association of computing Machinery(ACM).