CFO & EVP Partnerships for Systech; 

Co-Founder & Director for Center of AI & Analytics

Ashish Parikh career is at the epicenter of finance, operations and strategy, with a specialization in financial and customer data strategy. For the last 15 years, he has leveraged his progressive range of experiences from across the globe, to lead Systech’s incorporation in international markets as the company grew. He recently also adopted the role of EVP, Partnerships for Systech, where he brings his diverse skillset to manage Systech Solutions, Inc.’s most valuable partnerships. Currently, he leads Systech Solutions, Inc’s Cloud partnerships with AWS and Microsoft Azure. 

Ashish’s expertise is in planning and forecasting, strategic visioning, financial engineering and modeling, offshore operations, mergers & divestitures, and foreign company incorporation and oversight. He is a huge advocate of the simplification and implementation of Data Science and AI augmentation into and daily business processes, with the goal to provide better governance and transparency of operations.  In 2021, he has also taken the lead in driving the expansion of Systech’s Data Science efforts. He will be assembling and mentoring the Data Science team, building alliances with universities as well as technology vendors and getting Systech ready to take on Data Science projects – at scale.

In addition to his current roles at Systech Solutions, Inc., he is the co-founder and director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics (Center for AIA). This program brings together the best minds in industry, academia and technology domains to develop a unique framework to transform stakeholder journeys through innovation and digitalization of businesses and education institutions.  

Ashish earned a BC in Accounting, Finance and Statistics from Gujarat University, a PGDM in Finance from the Institute of Management Development and Research, and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.