Ashley Fernandes is a Principal of Crossing Cultures. He has worked in the field of telecommunications since 1990, specifically in Asia, USA and Australia where he has been Vice President of Sales for several large organisations including British Telecom, Telstra , Intelsat and others. Prior to this he worked at IBM for 9 years. Ashley joined Crossing Cultures in 2008.
With extensive experience in managing teams from countries including India, Singapore, China and Japan and being of Indian heritage gives him a unique perspective as to how best to achieve business goals in a competitive and diverse work environment. His management expertise includes turning around teams to move them into being the top performing region after intensive, hands on coaching and training.
Ashley is an accredited Associate with the Institute of Independent Business (IIB) and a member of the Australia India Business Council (AIBC).