Founder & CEO

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Mr. Ashok Kumar 

Founder & CEO at Ridge Consulting Group, Business Advisor to Suneet Varma Design and Board Advisor to The Fortune Company.

Mr. Kumar is an industry veteran who leads strategy consulting across multiple sectors. A former Senior Strategic Consultant at ACG and Francorp, he holds an M.Tech in Petro-Informatics from UPES Dehradun and has trained analysts from premier institutions.

He has worked alongside global experts including Mr. Nasser Munjee and Mr. Vishvjeet Kanwarpal, delivering 100+ major consulting assignments across Power, Renewables, Clean Energy, Coal, Oil & Gas, LNG, Refining, Petrochemicals, Fertilizers, Transport, Metals & Minerals, and Climate Change.

He has conducted global market studies across 198 countries and 70 territories, and specializes in feasibility studies, financial modeling, due diligence, asset valuation, market simulation, RDBMS architecture, forecasting models, big data analytics, and regulatory benchmarking.

He has also delivered 500+ franchise strategy assignments and financial models across sectors such as EV, Fashion, Retail, Healthcare, Pharmacy, F&B, Real Estate, Digital, and Education.

With 20 years of consulting expertise, he has worked with organizations such as The World Bank, USAID, Shell, Cairn, GAIL, HPCL, Tata Power, Aggreko, Trafigura, Reliance Retail, Suneet Varma, T&R Autoworks, Qurbat and several Fortune 500 companies.