Leadership & Team

Ashish Mishra is the CEO of Newage Software & Solutions. He brings in strategic, commercial and global experience to lead the transformation journey to make Newage the next generation Product company with a dynamic ERP software serving 300+ customers in the Logistics and Freight Forwarding industry, which is undergoing a huge reinvention.

He has been in the IT industry for 30 years which includes global leadership assignments in USA, UK and Singapore. Prior to becoming CEO of Newage, he worked at Kony (now part of Temenos), a leading Enterprise Mobility Software Company, as Senior Vice President. He served in a dual role of Global Delivery Head and GM for the Services Business in APAC (Asia, ME, Australia) responsible for the P&L. He transformed the start-up based Delivery Unit to a Professionally Managed Services Group. He was also the Company Director of Kony India.

Prior to joining Kony, he served as Director, DXC India. He was part of DXC’s Business Transformation and built Industry Software and Solutions Organization in India. He was responsible for Insurance, Banking and Healthcare Product Business as well as BPO in India, leading a strong 5500+ workforce. He was part of DXC India Executive Committee.

Prior to DXC, he worked with Xansa (now Sopra Steria) and TCS. He obtained Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IET, Lucknow in India.

Aroop Datta, as CFO for the Group, is an accomplished senior financial management professional with over 28 years’ experience across diverse finance and accounting functions, treasury, investment management, control and process improvement, budgeting, with exposure to Middle East, Turkey, India, Indian sub-continent and Asia Pacific countries. He has extensive knowledge of the ME Region, including being a Regional Controller Middle East, for a US Group. He specialized in setting up various control processes, IT developments across the Region, including setting up systems and procedures, developing legal entities in Jordan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, Kuwait. Aroop has also excelled in developing and implementing an organization-wide financial strategy which aligns with organization’s existing and long-term business objectives. Having previously worked in a reputed family office based out of UAE, that catered to diversified businesses including to investments, money exchange, a company with retail and distribution operations and a leading IT & ITES company in UAE. He also possesses implementation expertise with SAP, Oracle amongst other IT systems having implemented the systems across several countries in the Region. Aroop holds professional degrees in Accountancy.

Priya Sujeet, an HR thought leader possessing 23+ years of diversified experience and demonstrated success in leadership roles with small, midsized and multinational companies, is the Chief People officer for the Group company of Newage. Starting her career in sales she further experimented with marketing and eventually found her passion in HR management. This self-discovery journey transformed her into a seasoned business partner with a keen ability to work collaboratively across all levels of an organization with extensive success partnering with C suite executives and other senior business leaders to achieve aggressive growth, restructuring, and business performance improvement objectives. Priya completed a year with the FSL group in May 2020, but is associated with them for over 10 years formally with her first tenure being from1998 to 2006 where she headed HR for the Middle eastern region. The compelling culture at play, people focus and values being the glue that maintained the stickiness and brought her back. A regional role with Nissan motors in 2006 during its merger with Renault expanded her horizon to handle organizational effectiveness for the Levant, Middle east and Africa region. Between 2007 to 2015 Priya held various roles within Maersk line delivering on HR business partnering responsibility for 3 diverse business units. After a brief stint within family business between 2016 to 2018 she is now back to corporate and to what she loves most – delivering empowering people experiences. CSR and D & I are other topics that fuel her passion and that she commits herself to building on. Priya holds a Masters in Business management.

Suresh heads product delivery for Newage. He plays the indispensable role for business success by bringing in customer delight through customer solutions and delivery. He has gained over 14+ years of experience in this field and understands the in and out of the logistics domain and its software needs. He began his career in Newage as a Support Analyst and upskilled himself to understand the entire business. He has been one of the major contributors in building the organization from the very beginning. His expertise lies in project management, delivery assurance, people development, account management in terms of revenues and margins. He holds a Master degree in Computer Application

Senior Management Professional with over 24 years of experience across Application Product Development, Consulting, Support pre sales, Transitions and Project Management in Logistics, Supply Chain & Financial Services Retail Banking domain business applications.

Highly passionate individual who believes in leading from the front with an open mind to adopt to the new trends in technology and tools. Focused on continuous improvement in an agile software development environment and continuous learning with constant application of learnings.

Excellent Presentation and Communication skills & well rounded individual across Financial & Supply Chain domain with exposure to the Logistics domain.

Manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly in .NET, Java J2EE, RFID, Docker containers, Drools, Camunda, Kafka and relational database design using Oracle,DB2 , and MS-SQL Server.

Newage welcomes Sudharshan Bhaskaran as Chief Marketing Officer. He is a result-oriented marketing leader and withholds more than 22 years of experience in the B2B and B2C space. He has successfully launched and marketed products and services in India, the US, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Brazil. He has worked extensively in the technology marketing domain and successfully championed the transition of enterprise software to cloud subscription products and launched them globally while leading the marketing at Karomi Technology. He has a rich experience in working for organizations like Amnet, Honeywell, 24/7 Inc., Ramco Systems, Lister Technologies, and CADD Centre.

Sudharshan is a mechanical engineer and holds a post graduate management degree dually specializing in Marketing and Information Systems. He was awarded the “Most Influential Marketing Technology Leader– 2015” by World Marketing Congress endorsed by CMO Asia at Martech Awards 2015. He enjoys exploring ancient temples and listening to music.

At Newage, Sudharshan will be responsible for planning, developing, implementing, executing, and monitoring the overall marketing strategy. He will be responsible for generating business through myriad marketing activities. He will work with key stakeholders to do market research, pricing, product marketing, advertising, and media relations. Under his guidance, Newage aspires to rise higher for global expansion.