Ashish Mathur
Chief Information Officer – WNS Global Services
Ashish Mathur
| Full Name | Ashish Mathur |
| Current Designation & Role | Chief Information Officer |
| Current Company Name | WNS Global Services |
| Past Company Names | Barclays Bank, Aon Hewitt, Fidelity Information Services, PepsiCo, Tata’s |
| No of Years in the IT Industry | 23 years |
| City you live in currently and since when | Mumbai, since 2011 |
| Native Town/ City you belong | Delhi |
| Mother Tongue | Hindi |
| Language you are proficient with | English, Hindi, Bengali |
| Educational Details | Electronics Engineer from BIT, Ranchi and MBA from X.L.R.I, Jamshedpur |
| Awards and Recognitions Received CIO | Several. Most recent being the CIO 100 Award nomination for 2012 (by IDG) |
| Gadgets you love the most and why | Black Berry – I think it’s the most efficient smart phone for business users |
| What makes you laugh | slapstick comedy |
| Current book you are reading and what you love about it | The Litigators, John Grisham. This is his 25th book or so, and his style is ever enchanting |
| Books you enjoyed reading the most | That would be a really long list ! One of my favourite though is an old paperback – Battle Cry by Leon Uris |
| Software company you admire and why | Microsoft . I think it’s a constantly innovating company – and one way or the other – it touches the lives of almost everyone on earth! |
| Hardware company your admire and why | HP for its technology, reliability and robustness |
| IT personality you admire and why | Sabeer Bhatia – one of the few who got it right very early! |
| Your best moment in your career till date | Surprise promotion to a General Manager role at PepsiCo, quite early in my career |
| Your best moment in personal life | Holiday with my family at Disney World, Orlando |
| Music You Like | Old Hindi and old English |
| Movies You Like | Action, Comedy |
| Most Liked Travel Destination | Goa, London, Costa Rica |
| Why do you like your job | Every day is a new day for me – there are new business demands, new challenges and new technologies …. I love the excitement in my work and the people I work with ! |
| Most favorite quote | “If you torture data long enough, it will confess.” |