Strategist. Entrepreneur.

Asha is the Founder and the Creative Strategist of INK, a digital marketing consultancy focused on food retail and hospitality clients.

Asha has over 13 years of experience in multi-functional roles across financial services, technology, food and media. With over 8 years in investment banking research and sales as well as over 7 years in the food industry, her solutioning approach combines analytical and design thinking approaches tied with an understanding of consumer behavior. She has lived and worked in US, India, Japan, and Italy.

Asha has a reputation for being customer focused and that has enabled her strategic advice to be relevant and on point. She has been ranked with #1 Institutional Investor and #1 Street rated research teams in banking. She mentors several startups in partnership with accelerators in US and EU.

She loves to cook and is a self-taught chef. Despite not growing up with that belief, she has learnt that cooking is not a vocational but a life skill. Her mission is get people to cook more as she believes that is the ultimate secret to a sustainable future! She is the owner of NOURISHED, a media platform focused on positive food stories. She publishes a print and digital magazine that has international distribution. Her blog, Fork Spoon Knife, has a digital reach of over 400K.

She writes about food and culture for The Daily Meal, Spenser Magazine, and, The Honest Cooking. She has been featured in Redbook Magazine, Huffington Post, Good Food Jobs, Food 52, Mashable among others.