Ashutosh Agarwal

Biography

Ash serves as managing director for the mining practice at Uptake, a leading industrial-AI and enterprise software company. At Uptake, his team guides mining companies towards excellence across the value chain by leveraging data from various sources within operations.
Over the past few years, Ash has advised dozens of Mining and Manufacturing CIOs and CTOs on the best practices in the Digital Transformation of their organizations, thanks to his extensive experience in operations, strategy, start-ups, and Digital technologies.
Prior to Uptake, Ash was the co-founder and CEO of an AI start-up that leveraged data to improve productivity and reliability of operations. He also has more than 12 years of experience in the mining industry in both operations and as an OEM supplier.
Ash holds a master’s degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he mentored several start-ups on business planning, product-market fit and public speaking. Ash can be found talking to CIOs, CTOs, and CEO’s of mining and tech companies on his podcast, Core Insights.

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