Ashish Bhagat

“I was fortunate to work with and manage Ashish at HDS for several years. Ashish is a senior finance leader with incredible business acumen/instincts/executive courage that has earned a great level of trust and credibility with the leadership team. His high passion and energy combined with an ability to sift thru details, simplify complex issues and facilitate executive decisions makes him a tremendous asset to the organization. From P&Ls, Balance Sheets, Mega Deals to large investments, incentive plans, policies, governance and M&A, Ashish and his common sense approach provides critical decision support to the highest levels at HDS. As a people leader, Ashish has spear headed numerous transformation initiatives across his global organization reducing spend by more than 5% a year while improving business support into emerging businesses and org structures. His relationships and level of trust within his organization is second to none as he challenges his team by setting the bar high (by his own example) and enables their success by providing the tools and support as necessary. I cannot say enough positive things about this guy. Everything he has been challenged with he has successfully executed. I have enjoyed working with Ashish and view him as one of the best natural business partners and relationship builders I have had the priviledge to work with. ”

“I worked for Ashish for many years whilst I was EMEA CFO Hitachi Data systems. I've rarely worked with someone who's more focused on delivery and over achievement than Ashish. He always led from the front, challenged and drove the business forward. Ashish had great credibility and trust within the business and I really enjoyed working with him. He provided great support to me in my leadership role whilst always being open to listen and take on ideas and feedback within his global team. He was always prepared to go out on a limb for something he feels is important and drive the changes through with an open and transparent management style. Ashish is a world class strategic and operational Finance leader with tremendous business acumen. I learnt a lot from Ashish over the years and had great fun doing so.”