A Digital Business Transformation enthusiast, focused on business oriented IT Leadership, have excelled in diversity ranging from core FMCG, Consumer Goods, Building Materials, Manufacturing, Apparel, Trading and Retail domains. Ashok has mastered Malcom Baldrige, the world renowned industry agnostic process excellence model which enabled him lead organizational transformation and change. Enjoying the diverse journey which provided lots of discovery opportunities, it has fulfilled his evergreen desire to solve variety of business challengesAshok has over 26 years of experience with over 14 years as CIO in driving Digital Strategy, Planning, Operations, Infrastructure, Security, Business Partnering and Applications with cross cultural engagements across geographies including India, USA, UAE, UK, China, Australia and Hong Kong. Having taken up multiple green field challenges, he has successfully transformed IT Function building high performing IT Teams, Capabilities and Delivery Models.Delivering value and differentiation to business is Ashok's passion and have led Complex & Large Enterprise wide projects at Country to Global levels, which includes BPR, SAP, CRM, Customer Loyalty, E-Commerce, SFA, Retail, Dealer Management, Digital Supply Chain, Manufacturing Automation, RFID, HRMS, Analytics, Productivity, Infrastructure transformation and IT Strategy. Have also established cutting edge digital capabilities embracing new options like RPA, AI/ML, SDWAN etc.Leveraging cost leadership skills, have consistently optimized IT costs with a quality focus. He cherishes a strong change agent cum transformer role connecting with C level to Operational level leveraging his strong business acumen. He also enjoys sharing and learning with peers and millennials as a speaker at premier technology and management schools apart from technology eventsNote: Views expressed by me in all my LinkedIn posts and articles are purely mine as a practicing professional and do not reflect or relate to any views of any of my previous or current employers.