Ashish Ahuja is a seasoned business leader with three decades of global expertise in the tech industry covering Telecom, Cloud, Data Centers, Networks, Undersea Cable Systems, ISPs, Interconnect and Peering with deep understanding of global markets.  As a proven thought leader with a vision for the future, Ashish holds credentials of setting new regimes, policies and business models for industry to follow.  Ashish has served in diverse leadership roles at Google, France Telecom (Orange)  and Tata Communications with most recently being CTO of CtrlS Datacenters.

Ashish has been in diverse leadership roles at Google, France Telecom, Tata communications and CtrlS Datacenters covering business & corporate strategy, sales, partnerships, capacity planning, product management and building large scale infrastructure projects & high-performance teams to potentially transform the industries and economies at large. He excels in transforming complex challenges into focused growth solutions by integrating people, processes & technology and achieving  ‘Growth Through Differentiation’.

As one of the pioneers of Google’s ‘Global Network Infrastructure’ group, Ashish  holds the credentials of leading various global/regional strategic initiatives to build a state-of-the-art network and infrastructure projects (worth a few billion dollars) across various continents including being the driving force behind the build of IAX & MIST cable systems. As Director of Global Network Infrastructure at Google, he founded and orchestrated a multi-disciplinary team to build a new line of business with a potential to generate a few billion dollars in revenue.

Ashish’s market shaping activities include, founding managed optical fiber network (MOFN) model for developing markets (common industry practice globally by now),   founder of France Telecom’s business in India & South-East Asia growing business to 20x over 7 years, being one of the founders of the telco interconnect regime in India and Opening/shaping up various markets in across the globe driving a few Billion dollar  worth of investments covering Data Centers, Undersea Cables, Fiber and Telecom Networks.

Ashish holds bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering and masters degree in marketing management. He has lived and worked across Europe, APAC, and the Americas, gaining deep understanding of cultural diversity needed to build global teams and businesses.