Ashish Wadhwani is the Founding Director and Managing Partner at IvyCap Ventures. He has over 25 years of experience in Venture Capital, M&A, and Strategy Consulting. IvyCap is a Venture Capital fund built around the alumni of premier institutions of India and manages about USD 125 mn of capital.

During his career, Ashish has led and managed investments of over USD 400 m and also a NASDAQ listing. In addition, he has also worked on about 15 M&A transactions. Ashish has worked with companies across the investment lifecycle, from incubation to exit. He advised over 40 companies on business strategy, growth, implementing new business models, mergers and acquisitions across Asia, India and Europe. Ashish sits on the board of several privately held companies in India and Asia.

Ashish has also found and run his own ventures, and is a member of the board in several companies across the APAC region. Ashish is also currently serving as a board member of TiE Singapore.

Ashish was a strategy consultant with Roland Berger, Monitor Group and Deloitte. Ashish was also part of Tata Industries, the holding company of the Tata group.

Ashish expertise is across Technology, Energy and Manufacturing verticals.

Ashish is a regular speaker and author on thought leadership topics. He holds a Post-Graduate diploma in Management from the IIM Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech. degree from the IIT Delhi.

Ashish was born in Jamshedpur, India and has been living in Singapore and working across Asia since 2000.