Ashu is an
Indian name. Many people are named Ashu, including
the Indian executive, Ashu Tandon and also the Indian actor
Ashutosh
Rana.It is a very famous name in India. Ashu is a shortform of
Ashutosh.
Amongst popular Indians with the name Ashu,
the one mostly talked about is Ashu Tandon, born September 17th,
1972. Ashu was born in Delhi and moved to Nigeria in West Africa
where his father was a Chemistry Teacher in the university there.
Ashu was the youngest of three siblings, his elder brother, Dr.
Rajiv Tandon and sister Babita (married to Sunil Duggal). Ashu's
family stayed in Nigeria for over 10 years which is where he grew
up. When they came back to Delhi, India, Ashu was admitted to
Cambridge School, Srinivas Puri - where he excelled in all
activities including academics, dramatics, public speaking and also
sports. Ashu was a gifted athlete scoring many victories on the
soccer field and in the track and field events of 100m, 200m, 4 X
100 m relay, long jump. While still in junior school, he qualified
to play in the senior soccer team of the school and quickly built
his skills in playing on both flanks, as a mid fielder setting up a
play and extremely ruthless as an attacker. he won numerous awards
and best athlete trophies. In dramatics, his most memorable
performance was in the school production of "my Three Angels" a 3
act play about 3 escaped convicts. This play was largely
instrumental in accumulating funds for the school swimming pool.
Ashu' favourite was however a play he acted, and directed and was
with his friends and performed instinctively on stage on the
occasion of teachers day and was about the harmful effects of drugs
and was a story to his fellow students to Say No to Drugs.
In
his final year at school, Ashu was selected as School Captain - the
highest honor given to a student. Ashu went on to the University of
Delhi in Ramjas College where he graduated with honors in Economics
and then went on to the Delhi School of Economics where he did a
course in International Marketing. Ashu continued his
extra-curricular activities in college when he joined
AIESEC
- and was a master fund raiser for various activities there. Ashu
went on to do his MBA from
IMT, Ghaziabad- where
he won an Academic Scholarship, did his internship at Gillette,
before being picked up by
Ranbaxy Labs to join
them in marketing in the Head office at Delhi. Ashu excelled at
Ranbaxy and was even selected as a Fast Track Manager and quickly
rose to be a Sr. Manager in Marketing. In between, Ashu got married
to the girl of his dreams, Aditi - a wedding ceremony and reception
that was graced by over 1000 guests. Aditi is a highly talented
designer - having won numerous awards. Aditi ran her own design
studio and manufacturing unit selling kids design
furnishings.
With the intention of expanding his skill base and
challenging himself further, Ashu accepted an offer from
[Infosys] and joined
them in the Client Services Group focussed on Life Sciences, based
in New Jersey. Ashu is credited with helping top pharma clients
including 5 of the top 10 pharma companies to focus on the India
opportunity and use it as a base to source services from. He
continues to focus on this vertical and has helped save his clients
Millions of Dollars in IT spend. Ashu lives in Bridgewater, New
Jersey with his wife, Aditi and their two daughters, Roshni &
Ria.