Ashwin Rangan

Ashwin Rangan,
Industry Advisor

Until recently, Ashwin Rangan served as the General Manager and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Wal-Mart global.com. He joined the walmart.com team as CIO in 2005.

Prior to this assignment, he served as senior vice president and CIO of Conexant in Newport Beach, CA. Ashwin was a member of the founding team that spun-out Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (in January 1999) and created Conexant.

Before joining Rockwell Semiconductor Systems in 1995, he served in various senior management positions at AST Computer in Irvine, CA, until AST was acquired by Samsung Electronics.

Ashwin is associated with several start-ups and early-stage companies, serving variously as mentor, advisor and director. He currently serves on the Boards of Monarch Information and Technology Services, Inc. (www.mitsinc.com), Suggestica (www.suggestica.com) and QL2 (www.ql2.com).

Ashwin has a Masters in Industrial Engineering and Management with an emphasis on IT and Operations Management from NITIE, Bombay, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Bangalore University, India.

He is accredited with both CPIM and CIRM by the American Production and Inventory Control Society. He is accredited with a CSP by the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. Ashwin was most recently accredited as a Certified Corporate Director by the Directors Institute at UCLA. He is a long-standing member of the International MENSA.