Ashok Mahbubani

Biography

Ashok has participated in the establishment and growth of family-owned businesses in India, Canada, Haiti, Mexico, Spain and the United States.
In the US, Ashok built a supply chain logistics and contract manufacturing business. The Multitronics Group became a preferred supplier to the world’s largest Automotive Module manufacturers through 2018.
Ashok preserves his links with the industry as a student-observer of Autonomous/Connected & Electric Vehicles with a special interest in related cyber challenges.
In 2008, Ashok and his wife, Amrita, co-founded The EKTA Foundation. EKTA’s unifying principle is the enhancement of human dignity through education, for lasting social impact.
EKTA supports new directions in Education, with Open Future Institute in NYC, creators of The QUESTion Project™, a Social & Emotional Learning program that empowers high school students to build purposeful, fulfilling lives.
Ashok has been a Council Member at Hult Prize Foundation, the largest student-driven social enterprise development platform in the world. As a Mentor & Judge, he works with global Teams of aspiring entrepreneurs to help them build sustainable for-good, for-profit businesses.
Ashok was invited by Schmidt Futures to participate in their flagship social impact program, Alliance for the American Dream. As a National Panel Member, Ashok helped to select the best of three teams from Universities in Arizona, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin, each with promising ideas to increase income for middle-class families in their community.
In early years, EKTA completed projects with stellar partners in Education, Information Technology and Water, to change ground realities in Haiti for the better in a sustainable way.
EKTA is a benefactor of the Streisand Women's Heart Center in Los Angeles where gender-specific diagnostic protocols have been developed, to save lives through preventive care for women at risk.