Ashish Kumar is an accomplished Impact Investing strategist, Design Innovation expert, and a professional in International development focusing on emerging, frontier, and fragile economies. Holding an MBA in Strategy, Finance, and Social Entrepreneurship from the University of Oxford, and a B.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Ashish has a rich experience of evaluating and supporting early-stage start-ups, creative problem-solving, commercial proposition building, and large-scale program design. With skills in lean incubation, market ecosystem building, commercial due diligence, BoP market-entry, and scale-up, and INGO and social enterprise capacity-building, Ashish has served various sectors of Access to Energy, CleanTech, Financial inclusion, Mobile Money, Circular Economy, Sustainability, Smallholder Agri value chains, and Global Health, among others. Ashish has worked with notable organizations like Shell Foundation, Dalberg, livework, Sense Worldwide, Riders for Health, Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable (OBR), ICICI Bank, and Akanksha Foundation, assuming various advisory and in-house line management roles, and delivering results that match both organizational and stakeholders' goals.