Ashima Gera — CEO
- A servant leader with an entrepreneurial mindset and 18+ years of industry experience in strategy and execution across Products and Technology. Proven ability to work under pressure and chaos, bringing logical thinking to the table. Focused on building a culture of high performance through collective wisdom, from world class talent. Strong ethics and values fostering high sense of ownership and responsibility. - Experience in building and leading, cross-functional and geographically diverse technology teams towards a common goal such as building a world class product, driving a large-scale organizational cross-functional initiative, or solving a technology problem. Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with c-suite leaders across organizational units such as Business, Technology functions, HR, procurement, commercial, finance etc - Setting the strategy and execution plan, rallying stakeholders and driving delivery of critical outcomes with a focus on technology and product best across the entire product/system lifecycle including operational efficiencies. Focus on data driven insights for ongoing progress and feedback. - Leading large scale Engineering functions/ DevOps teams (500+ staff) with a focus on continuously evolving large scale backend technology platforms (cloud native and legacy) catering to billions of transactions/day such as the API gateways, Identity management systems etc. Coaching and mentoring teams with clear direction (Vision, OKRs) and setting quality standards (and practices such as lean and agile principles, SRE practices) for best possible outcomes. - Ongoing collaboration with the key functional units such as Finance and Commercial. Ongoing financial due diligence including investment plans and Business cases. Working closely with HR to ensure ongoing cultural alignment. Focusing on the overall operating model and team structures, talent uplift and learning pathways including recruitment, and talent management. - Having led large scale, multi-million-dollar Digital transformation programs, spread across thousands of employees in diverse geographical locations, I am able to continuously collaborate and rally cross-functional teams to a successful outcome. - With strong background in building and maintaining core Wireless systems and large-scale, data-center implementations (100 mn subscribers) through automation; I have an appreciation of the quality assurance mechanisms that need to be deployed and maintained throughout the lifecycle of a product/ system at scale.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications and SaaS expert with a strong focus on digital transformation and product engineering.
Location: Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Experience: 22 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Product Engineering
- Software As A Service (saas)
- Product Management
- Digital Transformation
- It Strategy
- Change Management
- Infrastructure Management
- Automation
Career Highlights
- 18+ years of experience in technology and product strategy.
- Led multi-million-dollar digital transformation programs.
- Expert in building high-performance cross-functional teams.
Work Experience
Infosys
Client Partner (1 yr 2 mos)
Circles.Life
VP - Product Engineering & Global SaaS Operations (2 yrs 2 mos)
Telstra
Product and Engineering Principal (5 yrs 9 mos)
Infosys
Principal Consultant (1 yr 2 mos)
Reliance Jio Infocomm Pvt. Ltd
Implementation Lead (1 yr 6 mos)
Wiztel Trainings
Business Partner & Trainer (3 yrs 4 mos)
Idea Cellular Ltd.
Manager - National & International Roaming Services (2 yrs 6 mos)
TATA Communications Ltd. (fka VSNL)
Signaling Co ordinator (1 yr 10 mos)
Reliance Communications
Telecom Network Planner (4 yrs)
Education
Master's Degree at Annamalai University
Engineer's Degree at Cummins College Of Engineering
High school at Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
