Ashwin Raj Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Boston, Ma, Us

ezCater is the most trusted provider of corporate food solutions. With over 100,000 restaurants across the US on its platform, ezCater provides flexible and scalable food solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off events such as sales calls and board meetings. ezCater is purpose-built for food for work and supported by best-in-class customer service, enabling companies to centralize and manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. To explore corporate food solutions or place a catering order, visit www.ezcater.com.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Single-threaded leader of a >$4B Revenue and P&L Rideshare business and member of Lyft's Executive Management Team.Achieved AEBITDA profitability in Q2’21, two quarters ahead of schedule, and delivered six consecutive quarters of record profits. Led the business through significant headwinds - the pandemic, recession and regulatory change.Manage a team >3,500 including Marketplace, Rev Ops, Pricing, Rider, Driver, Airports, Lyft Business, Insurance, Payments, Customer Support and Safety across all Engineering, Product, Science and business functions. Created a model for drivers to operate with flexibility while getting benefits by working with policy makers and regulators.Vice President, Customer Platforms Responsible for managing all of Lyft's variable costs.Managed the12th largest insurance portfolio and built industry-leading telematics & claims platform. Transformed Lyft’s in-app customer support and reduced tickets by 30% with higher resolution rates. Created industry first safety Smart Check-in and partnered with ADT to provide emergency help.Vice President, Payments, Integrity Identity and Financial InfrastructureSuccessfully led Lyft’s S1 and IPO filing to become a publicly traded company on NASDAQ.Created industry leading driver products such as Express Pay & ‘Instant Pay’ (first anywhere) to get paid instantly after every ride. Created best-in-class Rider, Telematics, Payments, Safety, Claims processing and Support capabilities and launched Wait&Save, Smart Check-ins, Priority Mode, Fraud ML models and Face Verification.Launched physical and virtual gift cards, ACH payments, Face authentication and advanced fraud models.Advanced the Gig model by launching the Lyft Direct financial platform for Drivers, the first free bank account, debit card with cashback & ‘Instant Pay’ (first anywhere) to receive funds instantly after every ride. Founder, Libra (Diem) Blockchain & Cryptocurrency with Meta, a16z, Uber, Spotify, Coinbase and Shopify.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsible for the P&L of Amazon Payments in North America delivering >100% YoY growth and profitability of Amazon's third-party commerce, payment and identity services across multiple industry categories.Transformed Pay with Amazon from a topline that generated hundreds of million dollars into a multi-billion dollar business in less than 2-years. Manage multiple teams of direct sales, self-service, account management, technology integration and customer support for Amazon Payments and launched with leading brands and such as Southwest Airlines, Cole Haan, Rhapsody, Edible Arrangements, GolfNow (NBC), Federal Government, etc.Ashwin transformed Pay with Amazon to be the identity and commerce back-end of Amazon businesses such as Amazon Echo/Alexa, Amazon Prints, Twitch, Woot, Comixology, Diapers.com, etc.Leading Pay with Amazon innovation in digital, omni-channel commerce and connected commerce with for the Amazon Bookstore and partners such as Moda Operandi.Expand and scale services and offerings by partnering with solution providers, agencies and system integrators.Led the management and consolidation and closure of legacy businesses and platforms such as FPS, CBA and Amazon Webstore.

Foster City, California, Us

Vice President, Global Innovation & Strategic PartnershipsEstablished the Innovation and Strategic Partnership function for Visa and focused on expanding Visa's mobile and digital initiatives. The partnerships with Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, etc. to launch Samsung Pay, Apple Pay and other pay solutions.Led the creation of Visa’s tokenization efforts that ultimately resulted in the EMV token standard.Vice President, Global Mobile Payment ProductsLed the acquisition, integration and post-acquisition execution of Fundamo, mobile money platform provider of 250-people based in S. Africa. This involved the development and delivery of mVisa, Visa Mobile Prepaid product and Fundamo Platform as a Service offering. He was responsible for building the provisioning service that enabled NFC provisioning on SIMs, devices and using HCE.Senior Director, Money Transfer, Remittances and P2PResponsible for commercializing Visa Direct, Visa's money transfer initiatives managing product development, marketing and sales to financial and non-financial institutions in the USA. He successfully launched programs with entities, such as US Bank and MoneyGram and formed strategic partnerships with CashEdge and Fiserv.Senior Account Executive, Strategic AccountsManage Visa’s largest bank customers, Citibank, HSBC and Standard Chartered in Asia Pacific that contribute to almost 50% of Visa Asia Pacific’s revenues by creating global and regional partnerships. Director, Consumer Credit ProductsManage Visa’s Classic, Gold and Co-brand products and grow client card accounts, volume, market share and consumer preference through partnerships that include usage, product development and value-added initiatives.Director, Mobile Payment and Prepaid ProductsLed a global team to develop and launch Visa's prepaid, money transfer and contactless EMV products. He managed the development and deployment of proximity payment solutions on mobile phones and cards using technology such as NFC.

Mclean, Va, Us

M&A analysis of HP and Compaq – created the product rationalization strategy to reconcile products of both companies. Completed market sizing and growth analysis for combined entity.Supply chain management and inventory reduction for Lucent Technologies - savings of $50MMCost reduction strategy for Clorox, Inc. – resulted in savings of $250 million.Director, nSolutions, Inc (Portfolio company). Created the business plan, forecasts, segmentation, product roadmap & positioning, and competitive strategy. Generated revenues of US$ 1 Million from licensing and partnerships with telecom OEMs. Secured strategic and channel alliances.

Us

Led the technology team that created medical devices, life management aids and workplace re-engineering to accommodate adults and children with disabilities and workplace modification programs for businesses in the State of Alabama.Established the Rehabilitation Technology Services Center to evaluate an individual's comprehensive physical capabilities. This was a breakthrough feature for services offered by the state as it allowed the right person to be placed at the right job depending on his or her physical capabilities. This reduced the attrition of disabled employees by 15%.

Spring Hill, Tn, Us

Led a special project including four manufacturing teams to modify the manufacturing assembly line to prevent injuries to workers and increase efficiency. This was a key initiative that Saturn launched to repatriate injured workers back to the jobs and prevent other workers from being injured on those tasks. Resulted in a 23% increase in line speed & savings of $1 Million/team.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Ms, Biomedical Engineering

B.E., Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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