Ashutosh founded Veros Ventures in April 2024. It’s an operator-led advisory and capital-raising firm that helps growth-stage AI companies expand across India, ASEAN and the GCC, with offices in Singapore and Abu Dhabi (ADGM). Ashutosh chairs Infomo Global, serves on the board of Saptharushi, and advises FairPrice Group on building its retail media network. He also advises NeuralGarage, Flam, Moving Walls and live2.ai.
Prior to this, he spent nearly two decades leading WPP media businesses in growth markets, covering APAC, MENA, Africa and Russia, . As CEO of GroupM Asia Pacific from 2020 to 2024, he oversaw more than US$20 billion in annual media investment across 14 markets, grew market share to 43% and built capability in retail media, CTV and programmatic. Before that he was CEO of Mindshare global growth markets, and led the global talent and product development teams. He chaired the MMA Asia Pacific board from 2015 to 2018 and served later as its Chairman Emeritus.
