Ash Parashar

Building winning sales and go market strategies for high growth firms in Software Services and products, Mobile technologies, Payments and Fintech, AI, Online banking portals, IoT, SaaS, Data Analytics, Cloud, Web technologies and CX.

ThoughtWorks has been polled by Glassdoor as the hardest technology company in the world to get hired into. One of the founding firms of the Agile manifesto, its technologists offer specialised consulting, experience design and digital business transformation services. Led a team of 12 experienced sales executives, 4 marketing and 3 presales executives, driving the company towards an ambitious plan for very significant qualitative and quantitative growth in the UK.

Integreon is a PE backed firm that supports its clients in the areas of strategic consulting, market and competitive intelligence, discovery, business process outsourcing (BPO) and operating model transformation. As VP Business Development I was responsible for creating a new sales organisation for the UK and leading Integreon new business sales efforts across 4 service lines and multiple industry sectors in UK and the EMEA.

Steria (now Sopra Steria) offers technology-consulting, application, data analytics, SaaS, mobility and BPO services globally. In 2013 it had 19,000 employees in 16 countries and annual revenue of £1.8b. As Head of Global Account & Business Development I had a global role responsible for > 800 employees across 6 countries delivering a wide range of IT and software services to a FTSE 25 Banking group across 4 continents.

As head of New Business Development EMEA for the banking sector I was responsible for successfully delivering triple digit year on year percentage revenue growth and to ambitious new client acquisition targets, across the Banking, FS and Insurance sectors in EMEA and the US. ITC Infotech is a global IT services company, delivering full stack software solutions and technology services to diverse sectors and corporations.

Head of Financial Services, International Business Division | Business Unit head managing > 150 FTEs ITC’s International business division trades in agricultural commodities connecting global markets to the £230b Indian agricultural sector. Annual revenue was £380m with 9000 employees in 2007.

As Head of Marketing & Corporate Communication I led a team of 5 executives responsible for all marketing and PR Activities and campaigns across 5 client segments nationwide. Birla SunLife wealth and asset management was a joint venture of the £25b Aditya Birla Group of India and £14b SunLife Financial of Canada.

As a Captain in the world's 3rd largest professional army I commanded an infantry company, leading 9 officers and 126 soldiers, in diverse tours of duty including active combat roles, peacekeeping, disaster rescue and hostage recovery missions.

MBA - Major in Strategic Marketing and Technology. ISB is a partner school of Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania), London Business School, MIT Sloan and Kellogg School of Management. rRated by the Financial Times as amongst the top 25 full time MBA programmes globally.

Bachelor of Science - Major in Mathematics and Physics. JNU is recognised as India’s number one university with a national accreditation grade of 3.9/4, the highest in India.