Senior Director, AI Networking and Security Solution, Ecosystem and Marketing

Ash is an accomplished tech executive and a passionate entrepreneur with expertise in growing companies to achieve exponential revenue and customer growth. He has a track record of building and marketing industry-winning products and solutions that delight customers and hold leadership market position. Ash's career exhibits a unique blend of broad technology know-how, business savvy and entrepreneurial drive, Throughout his career, he has incubated, launched and scaled tech businesses at large, medium and start-ups companies. His diverse cross-functional experience across engineering, research, product management, marketing and business development coupled with remarkable intellectual and emotional intelligence, positions him as a key influencer in driving ideation, productization and growth phases of the product life cycle. Ash has built high performance teams to develop and execute core technologies & strategies across many technology domains including software defined networking, accelerated computing, SaaS, cloud brokers, WiFi, cybersecurity, telecom, data center virtualization, artificial intelligence, mobile apps, web conferencing and end-point devices. Ash is currently a Senior Director of Market Development at NVIDIA and is leading a team responsible for driving revenue growth of NVIDIA's data center and AI products. This role involves a strategic focus on cloud, telecom, and cybersecurity markets through the cultivation of a robust developer ecosystem. Ash holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from Santa Clara University and an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Key Accomplishments include: * Mellanox SmartNIC Business: $1B annual revenue, 70% market share (acquired by NVIDIA for $6.9B) * Founder & CEO of Mobile-Social-AI Game-Recommendation Start-up (acquired by a PE company) * Cisco Integrated Services Router Business: $2B annual revenue, 90% market share * Polycom Microsoft Lync UCC End Point Business: $50M revenue, @215% CAGR * Cisco WLAN Management Business: $40M revenue, 65% market share, @112% CAGR * Open Networking Foundation Outstanding Contribution Award: for driving industry adoption of openflow SDN