Ashish is an Indian-American business leader. He is currently Vice President of Supply Chain Strategy for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a global biopharm company. Ashish is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Lean Manufacturing Coach.
Ashish earned his engineering degree from NDRI in India. He started his career with GSK Consumer Healthcare, India in 1996 as an Assistant Manager Plant Operations. Ashish worked in various manufacturing and supply chain operations positions in India before moving to China in 2005 as Supply Chain Lead for GSK Regional Pharma Sourcing. Continuing his global journey, Ashish moved to the United States in 2009 as Director of Operational Excellence and Business Change at GSK in Clifton New Jersey. In 2014, Ashish received his MBA in Strategy and Finance from The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business (Chicago, IL).
During his tenure at GSK, Ashish has worked in various leadership roles such as Head of Accelerated Delivery Program, Dermatology Strategy, and Vice President, Specialty Pharma Supply Chain, VP and Head of Pharma Supply Chain. Currently, Ashish is Vice President, Global Supply Chain Strategy, his responsibilities include Supply Chain Leadership for GSK's Medicines portfolio that includes Benlsyta, Nucala, Zejula, Cabuneva, Trelegy, Jemperli and Vaccine portfolio that including leading assets like Shingrix, Arexvy helping protect people from Shingles, RSV, Meningitis, Flu, Polio, measles and more.
Ashish is passionate about fostering Supply Chain community in the US, Talent development and is a DEI advocate. Outside of work Ashish enjoys spending time with family, playing tennis and traveling. Ashish is a Economics geek, loves to listening to podcasts / books on Audible and is a Star Wars fanatic!