Mike Ash Email & Phone Number

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education (Caltech CTME), Division of Engineering & Applied Science, California Institute of TechnologyCaltech CTME is the executive education and professional development arm of Caltech, dedicated to equipping professionals and organizations with cutting-edge skills and knowledgeResponsibilities:• Spearhead program and market development initiatives to position Caltech CTME as the global leader in technology, engineering, and management education• Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with prominent clients such as Northrop Grumman, NASA, the Department of Energy, the US Navy, JPL, and others• Foster strategic collaborations with Caltech faculty, research centers, and academic divisions, as well as externally facing leadership teams, to integrate cutting-edge research and academic excellence into executive education programs

Self-Employed. Passionately worked along a couple of exciting pathways: 1) planning for society's disciplined use of exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, biotech, and genetics; 2) supporting clients' business transformation and strategy development while engaging directly or through open talent platforms Catalant, GLG, and the Business Talent GroupContractor for Monitor Group, San Francisco (acquired by Deloitte)Select clients and engagements: • Confidential University Institute - Scenario planning and strategy • Monitor Group - Oorganizational strategy for a Fortune 100 retail brand• Sony Pictures - Digitization of sales planning and distribution; digital B2B marketing operations• IBM - Teaching case development for complex problem solving in digital strategy / marketing

Attempted to spin up a revolutionary think/do tank in Cambridge, MA. Our focus was anticipating long-term societal impacts of AI and Biotech and what global governance mechanisms might make sense. However, our venture succumbed to funding challenges typical with entrepreneurial and non-profit endeavors. Better World Institute for Thought & Policy, committed to humanity’s future in 2050, is the breakthrough organization at the nexus of nature, economics, cognition, science, policymaking, and creativity. We looked to engage the foremost explorers, policymakers, wavemakers, and other leaders in society to think in a fresh way and shape an agenda for humanity and the wonder of our world, for us and the generations who follow.

Worldwide, Oo

Led and delivered multiple client engagements in strategic planning and business model development. Managed multidisciplinary programs with Monitor, Doblin, Deloitte Greenhouse, Leadership Center for Clients, and IDEO. Designed and facilitated high-stakes, immersive client experiences and workshops to break down barriers and accelerate meaningful results focused on complex challenges: • "How might advanced computing (quantum, neuromorphic) and the internet of things evolve by 2020 - 2025?"• "How might we think about the role of public media amidst the media landscape of 2020 - 2025?"• "How might home entertainment evolve by 2020?"• "How might we become a more effective senior management team?"• "How might we build dynamic, digital organizations that can securely attract, develop, and retain talent?"Responsible for practice development, sales and managed revenue targets, utilization, account planning for key clients, talent recruitment, and thought leadership development.Facilitated multi-day professional education events in strategy development, productive interactions, problem-solving, logical structuring, and storyboarding at Deloitte University for Strategy & Operations leaders and staff.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Strategy Consulting (Aquired from PwC)Formulated competitive strategies for Fortune 100 media/entertainment/product clients and organizations to guide them in making decisions on financial opportunities and exploiting industry shifts: digitization, globalization, and consumer preferences. Engagement Manager/Case Leader, representative cases (International fieldwork):• Growth strategy for Video Game/Digital Video Network (JP, UK)• Global online retail strategy for Consumer Electronics (JP)• International market launch planning for Digital Video Network (JP, UK)• New product development process design for Interactive Network (JP, UK)• Change strategy for commerce platform transformation for Shopping Network (DE, UK)• Intellectual property security strategy for global Toy & Game Company (PRC, UK)• Marketing operations and organization strategy for Broadcaster• Digital organization strategy for Kid's Cable Network• Organization strategy for consumer products licensing for Kid's Cable Network• Profit improvement strategy for Global Entertainment Company• Acquisition strategy for Network/Studio Project Manager, representative internal projects (in IBM):• Integrated global enterprise operating model reinvention (13 functions)• Go-to-market strategy US Communications/Media Strategy Practice• Go-to-market strategy Global Organizational Change PracticeCo-owned and delivered professional education to new MBA hires and staff: Issue-Based Consulting (six-day program), Strategy, Innovation, Organizational Design, Energizing Change, Strategic Profit Improvement, Pyramid Writing/Logical Storyboarding

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Corporate and Operations Strategy, Media and Entertainment• Assessed business strategies of clients including working capital, process workflows, financial insufficiency, and new business opportunities in digital media, Internet, and scaling new services for national distribution• Conducted industry impact studies on the long-term implications of emerging technologies, digitization, and globalization Representative cases:• Market entry for first-of-a-kind digital Book Publisher• Market entry and operations strategy for national VOD distributor• Operating model design for a national Cable provider• Revenue leakage improvement for Home Video• Global sales process for Home Video• Product portfolio strategy for Home Video• Digital strategy for Large Studio• Brand licensing strategy for Celebrity's Media Company• Global process transformation business case for Large Studio• Customer segment strategy for Semiconductor

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Milai Gijitsu Kenkyusho (Future Technology Labs) is an innovative, Tokyo-based design studio that literally wrote the book on 3D product development as visualization workstations emerged for modeling and rendering. MILAI pioneered stereo-lithography and design-engineering integration. The studio specialized in new product development and industrial design for automotive design, consumer electronics, film/TV animation, and video game development. I led business development and project delivery for Disney, Sony Playstation, SquareEnix; directly managed teams of designers from ArtCenter College of Design and Tama Art University.

Tokyo, Jp

As a volunteer, chaired the new media subcommittee to develop awareness and positions for US trade and policy involving issues in Internet, communications, encryption, and emerging digital technologies.

Interactive production for new media, internet, visualization, and learning.

Exed, Advanced Business Strategy, Operations, Organization, Media Strategies

Bs, Sociology/Business