With 23 years of experience in the ICT industry, Ashish is currently leading a team of Presales Experts, Solution Architects, Services and Support in Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise in 2011, Ashish has held senior technical roles with Tata Group, General Electric (GE) and Al-Futtaim Group. He also worked in Australia for 5 years.

He started his career as an IT trainer of Novell, Microsoft, IBM and networking technologies. With his passion for technology increasing multifold, he specialized in designing networks for large organizations across various sectors including transportation, healthcare, education and finance.

Ashish holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Master’s degree in Business Administration and he is passionate about digital transformation and how technology can make human life better. He enjoys reading and one of the recent books he read is ‘Ikigai’, a Japanese concept exploring the purpose of life.