Ashwin Venkatesan leads Everest Group’s practice focused on serving enterprise IT leaders. Ashwin is responsible for developing Everest Group’s research offerings focused on CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, CISOs, and IT strategy heads across application, cloud & infrastructure, data, and security services. Ashwin manages a team of analysts dedicated to serving clients (primarily Fortune 500 companies) on a variety of enterprise IT issues through a combination of published research and custom decision-support engagements. Ashwin’s expertise spans across key IT operating model issues such as IT costs optimization, delivery model & productivity enhancement, next-generation IT workforce development & management, technology investments, and sourcing portfolio optimization. Most recently, Ashwin led Everest Group’s Cloud and Infrastructure Services research practice where he scaled Everest Group’s cloud and datacenter, digital workplace, network, and security services practices