Ashutosh S. — Co-Founder
I provide opportunity/risk and threat management services in Europe, India, the Middle East and Africa. My clients include high networth investors, IP-rich startups and SMEs, PE funds and private banks, as well as retired military officers in sensitive geographies. Between 2009 and 2014, I completed a series of assignments, jointly with a law firm, for the US government. My work is typically undertaken where information asymmetry, political exposure or regulatory complexity involves major risk and requires judgement and discretion rather than off-the-shelf consulting. I previously worked with Shell's Global Scenarios team in London, developed a 20-year Vision Plan for Michelin's India, Africa and Middle East teams at its HQ in France, and guided EU product launches by Dow Chemical. I tested acceptance of a US military waste-to-energy system in India and Europe, selected sites on four continents for clinical trials by Eli Lilly and identified a high-speed American construction system for India’s first low-cost housing venture. I also lobbied the EU and was part of its task forces on innovation and supply chains. I have a rare familiarity with the cross-cultural choices and interactions central to a borderless world. Married to a Belgian from a family of diplomats, bankers and politicians, I have lived in the US and Europe for over three decades. My own family included a district magistrate, female legislator and Sandhurst-commissioned military officer in British India, followed by the industry minister in the Nehru cabinet, a governor, a diplomat and six members of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). My parents were university vice chancellors. My father graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, and Teachers College, Columbia, and my mother from the University of Minnesota. I work selectively and with discretion, typically advising principals, boards, and senior leadership rather than operational teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic advisor specializing in risk management and geopolitical analysis across multiple industries.
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Experience: 43 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- Risk Management
- Threat Assessment
- Due Diligence
- Strategic Planning
- Market Analysis
- Innovation
- Strategic Advisory
- Market Research
- Editorial Management
- Research
- Consulting
- It Systems Re-engineering
- Teaching
- Communications Strategy
- Writing
Career Highlights
- Extensive experience in risk and threat management.
- Published author on India's emergence as a global power.
- Keynote speaker at multiple high-level EU conferences.
Work Experience
Info, Intel & Strategies (I2Strat)
Director (12 yrs 6 mos)
Greystone SA
Operations Manager (3 yrs 5 mos)
KYC Anonymous
Founder-Manager (17 yrs)
The Centre
Columnist, Workshop Moderator (10 mos)
Healthcare IT Management
Managing Editor (3 yrs)
Lemit Europe SA
Chief Executive Officer (2 yrs 1 mo)
Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Brussels Management School)
Guest Professor, International Politics (1 yr)
IndiaAdvisory
Principal (15 yrs 2 mos)
Find/SVP Inc. (Guideline)
Consultant (10 yrs)
EFPIA - European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
Director of Communications (2 yrs)
PwC
Consultant, Special Projects (3 yrs)
Frost & Sullivan
Research Team Leader (2 yrs)
Press Trust of India (PTI)
Benelux and European Correspondent (4 yrs)
Mayeur & Marbaix
Researcher, Writer (2 yrs)
Education
at BITS (National Science Talent Scholar), Brandeis University (Wien Scholar), Berhampur University.
at Rishi Valley School
Science (National Science Talent Scholar) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Philosophy (Wien International Scholar) at Brandeis University
BA at Berhampur University
