Program & Delivery
Agile/Scrum · road-mapping · stakeholder alignment · risk & vendor management · OKRs · budgeting.
Platinum Channel Partner
Ashish Poogalia
About
Ashish Poogalia
Platinum Channel Partner · Bharat MedfinAshish Poogalia is a Platinum Channel Partner at Bharat Medfin, working at the intersection of healthcare access and financial innovation. A seasoned technology and delivery leader, he brings over two decades of enterprise experience to transforming how patients, providers and financial institutions engage across India's evolving healthcare landscape.
"Delivering seamless outcomes through customer obsession, deep ownership, and the courage to simplify what others leave complex."
Across a career spanning Amazon, Diebold, Deloitte and GE / Genpact, Ashish has executed high-stakes programs at global scale — securing $300M+ payment platforms, rolling out AI chatbots across 23 countries, and hardening IoT security for Fortune 500 environments. That stakeholder-management expertise now powers his approach to building trust-driven ecosystems in healthcare finance.
Educated at IIM Calcutta, Harvard Business School and UC Irvine, and certified across AWS, Oracle and ITIL frameworks, he pairs academic rigour with hands-on execution — equally comfortable in boardroom strategy and engineering architecture.
23+Years experience
$300M+Platforms managed
23Countries deployed
17K+Users secured
Impact
Signature achievements
Security review excellence — 64.6% above target
Led Amazon's security inspection roadmap across 10+ engineering teams, surpassing service-review targets by 64.6% through proactive execution and cross-functional alignment.
AI-driven expense platform — 23 countries
Pioneered an AI-powered expense-reimbursement chatbot deployed globally at Amazon, making policy access instant and self-serve at unprecedented scale.
$300M+ vendor payment platform
Sole point of contact for Amazon India finance applications — owning incident management, vendor relations and system stability, driving daily escalations to zero within six months.
AI-powered background verification tool
As Co-Founder & CTO of KonnectNXT, designed an AI-assisted hiring platform using LLMs for resume parsing and skills mapping — cutting cost-per-hire and manual screening effort.
Enterprise phishing simulation — 17,000+ users
Executed organisation-wide security-awareness campaigns at Amazon, owning simulation design, metric tracking and certification — measurably strengthening security culture.
Expertise
Core competencies
Security Engineering
Application & IoT security · threat modelling · data protection · architecture reviews · phishing simulation.
Cloud & AI/ML
AWS (S3, Lambda, API Gateway) · Oracle Cloud · LLM integration · AI agents · generative AI.
Healthcare Stakeholder Mgmt
Patient & provider engagement · healthcare finance systems · regulatory alignment · multi-stakeholder coordination.
Enterprise Systems
Oracle Financials · ServiceNow · BAAN · ITIL · ERP implementation · legacy modernisation.
Strategic Leadership
Finance systems · vendor payments · AI automation · global deployment · cross-cultural team leadership.
Career
Professional journey
Platinum Channel Partner
Partnering with Bharat Medfin as a Platinum Channel Partner — connecting hospitals and healthcare providers with the right financing solutions and growing the network across the region.
Founder
Founded a training consultancy delivering programmes on technology, security and communication for individuals and organisations navigating digital transformation.
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-built an AI-assisted hiring-intelligence platform with built-in background verification, reducing cost-per-hire by delivering candidate insights before the first interview.
Technical Program Manager — Application Security
Spearheaded security-inspection roadmaps across 10+ engineering teams (64.6% above target), directed IoT security reviews, ran the Data Protection Program and executed phishing simulations for 17,000+ users.
Application Manager — Finance Applications
Sole SPOC for all Amazon India finance applications. Managed $300M+ vendor-payment platforms, launched an AI chatbot across 23 countries and drove escalations to zero within six months.
Project Lead — Finance Application Manager
Led end-to-end global deployment of Oracle, BAAN and ServiceNow across Hyderabad, Goa, Mumbai and China, championing legacy modernisation with measurable cost reduction.
Assistant Manager
Designed and implemented Oracle financial structures for enterprise clients including Weight Watchers, Masco and EuraMax, leading onsite-offshore coordination and process re-engineering.
Consultant
Implemented Oracle Financial systems for GE Capital and delivered sustained IT operational support, building foundational expertise in enterprise finance and client stakeholder management.
Education
Academic background
Harvard Business SchoolLeadership & Management Program
IIM CalcuttaSenior Management Programme — Management Information Systems
University of California, IrvineProject Management Specialization
Nagpur UniversityMaster of Commerce — Finance
Credentials
Certifications
AWS Security Governance at ScaleAmazon Web Services · 2025
AWS Cloud Practitioner EssentialsAmazon Web Services · 2022
AWS Partner Accreditation (Technical)Amazon Web Services · 2022
Foundations of CybersecurityGoogle · 2025
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AIOracle University
Oracle Implementation ChampionFinancial ERP
Certified Process Professional®BPM — BP Group · 2012
ITIL FoundationIT Infrastructure Library · 2013
FCPA CertificationForeign Corrupt Practices Act · 2012
Project Management CapstoneCoursera / UC Irvine · 2015
Budgeting & Scheduling ProjectsUC Irvine · 2015
Project Management SpecializationCoursera Verified · 2015