Ashwin Venkatesan

Executive Research Leader

Ashwin is an Executive Research Leader at HFS Research. He has more than 17 years of experience in the global business services (GBS) and technology services advisory space, with a proven track record as a trusted advisor for C-level executives and services leaders across Fortune 2000 enterprises and service providers.

Before joining HFS, Ashwin was a director at Deloitte's GBS consulting practice, where he spearheaded consulting engagements to help clients set up, scale, and mature their global capability center and outsourcing portfolios. He was involved in multiple initiatives covering the GBS lifecycle (strategy, design, and implementation/continuous improvement) across tech/digital, ER&D, and business operations.

He also held positions at Everest Group (incubating the Cloud and Infrastructure Services analyst and advisor practice and developing advisory offerings for enterprise IT leaders) and Evalueserve (managing business research teams).

Ashwin earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Delhi Technological University and is based in Gurgaon. A sports enthusiast, Ashwin closely follows cricket, basketball, chess, football, and tennis. He spends his weekends playing basketball and taking long drives with his family.

Ashwin Venkatesan

Content By Ashwin Venkatesan

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ServiceNow Move(work)s to ‘disrupt the enterprise’ and target agentic operations domination

ServiceNow's acquisition of Moveworks has raised the stakes in the AI-powered enterprise software race.

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GCC leaders—you may have been superheroes, but now it’s time to assemble your Avengers!

Enterprises must maximize GCC potential by shifting from an 'us vs. them' mindset to collaboration and co-innovation with service providers.

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Service providers and software firms on a collision course—a test of an age-old friendship

The AI blitz is forcing software vendors and service providers to cannibalize revenues, testing their friendship.

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Trump’s Stargate demands you accelerate your Services-as-Software plans

Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure project, designed to secure America’s technological supremacy, promises a transformative leap in AI.

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