Ashish Chawla

Senior Advisor

25+ years | Business Finance, M&A, Value Realization, Global Expansion Ex- Wipro, WMNetServe

Ashish has amassed more than 25 years of financial leadership experience, with two decades as a CFO driving P&L performance, structuring multimillion-dollar outsourcing engagements, and leading the financial end of mergers and acquisitions. He is an acknowledged master in deal shaping, due diligence, and designing outcome-based commercial models that help nurture long-term value for global enterprises.

Ashish has distinguished himself in shaping high-value commercial engagements, guiding cross-border acquisitions, and building financial systems for scalability. He lends his expertise across P&L leadership, deal structuring, and value realization to enterprises, startups, and investors navigating growth and transformation.

During his enduring professional journey – at Wipro and WMNetServe – Ashish has taken on a variety of roles and responsibilities that sharpened his understanding of diverse markets and teams across multiple continents and cultures.

He held multiple senior finance leadership roles at Wipro. Responsible for P&L exceeding $6B, he streamlined financial levers, reversed margin erosion, and introduced outcome-based commercial models, delivering $60 million in post-COVID savings and a 600 bps margin expansion. During his U.S. tenure, he managed investor relations, guided global M&A efforts, and led Wipro’s inorganic growth strategy through four strategic acquisitions between USD 25M and 200M - these included two in Brazil and a complex Citibank LATAM engagement. As CFO of WMNetServ, the Wipro–Motorola joint venture, he built finance operations across India, the UK, and Turkey while strengthening partner networks and supply chain efficiency.

Ashish is a Chartered Accountant from ICAI and has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Honours) from Delhi University.