Ashfaq is a passionate technologist and as the founder and CEO of Sanveo has spearheaded and evangelized the digital transformation of AEC industry for more than 15 years, ensuring that that the industry has the foundation of innovation and advanced technologies that will usher in the world of Industrialized Construction.Since starting of Sanveo in 2008 in the midst of the Great Recession, Ashfaq led the company on a path of sustained growth, constantly expanding the company’s product and services offerings, all the while growing its geographic footprint worldwide and building strategic partnerships. In 2016, Sanveo was ranked the 5th fastest-growing company Silicon Valley’s Business Journal. At the end of 2019 Sanveo launched its flagship product suite AECInspire®, which provides an AI and ML driven data-management solution to customers that are transitioning into Industrialized Construction methods. AECInspire gives its users unprecedented control of the total supply chain, from design, to fabrication and manufacture, to installation and management. With over 25 years of successful corporate and entrepreneurial experiences Ashfaq is a proven leader in vision, business forecasting, and effective go-to-market strategies geared for a global customer base.Ashfaq is a graduate of the VDC program from Stanford University; has a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University; and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from NITK Suratkal, India.

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At Excelize I manage global business development and accounts management for the company. I am also responsible for developing and leading the company into new and strategic lines of business.It is an exciting time to be involved in the technology space of the AEC industry. Virtual Design & Construction (VD&C), Building Information Modeling (BIM), Lean Construction technologies and services will transform the AEC industry in near future.Currently I am leading the effort in developing specialized VD&C and BIM teams and services offerings for company along with my regular responsibilities.Over last 4 years, I have also successfully have managed strategic business planning, P&L and operation management for the business.

• Lead Product Development for products that were installed in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies including GE, Ford etc.• Responsible for Product Management (gathering business requirements, functional design, UI design and testing), as well as complete software development life cycle activities• Successfully lead cross-functional team spread across US, Ireland and India and implemented feature sets that had impact across at least 8 products lines in Oracle Applications including Purchasing, AR, AP, Projects, Contracts, State & Federal etc.• Championed process improvement by architecting automated API testing which was designed on Extreme Programming principals. Led design and implementation of the test harness that automated the complete process from generation of test cases to running of these tests to management reporting. The process and the test harness were adopted across the group

• Work in a fast paced environment with tight release deadlines for development of B2B e-commerce exchanges deployed across multiple industries including Covisint (AutoXchange), AeroXchange (Boeing), Sears and Tijari (Dubai)• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, Oracle OnDemand hosting team with responsibility of web-based development and deployment of hosted exchanges as SaaS for Oracle Exchanges• Developed and managed training of the consultants, sales and marketing teams on Oracle Exchanges