About Me
Ashok Karania is the Director for Enterprise Mobility Sales And Strategy for InfoStretch Corporation. He is spearheading the company’s strategic and business development initiatives across the world. He had joined InfoStretch as the Head – Business Strategy at InfoStretch Solutions in Sep 2009 and was earlier responsible for managing business strategy and business development in APAC and Europe.
InfoStretch is a leading provider of mobile services and solutions, ranging from enterprise application development, testing, automation and certification. InfoStretch’s complete understanding and expertise of the Mobility World has helped the leading Enterprises, AppStores, Carriers and Product Companies to actualize their mobility vision. InfoStretch’s award winning design, product engineering skills and testing expertise have delivered rich results to the leading companies in Travel, BFSI, Retail and Healthcare industry.
The InfoStretch suite of innovative state-of-the art mobile solutions include:
- Enterprise Application Development
- Handset Testing
- Localization and Porting
- Application Testing
- AppStore Strategy and Aggregation
- Test Automation
Ashok Karania is the Founder of Mobile Monday Ahmedabad. Mobile Monday Ahmedabad’s mission is to promote mobile technology and to bring the people in the Ahmedabad mobile industry together to network.
Ashok Karania is actively driving Gujarati Localization Initiatives through Gujaratilexicon, Digital Bhagwadgomandal, Lok Kosh etc. Gujaratilexicon has achieved a Thought Leader status in the Gujarati Localization domain through innovative technology solutions, rich alliances and niche marketing.
Previously, Ashok held the position of Enterprise Facilitator of Magnet Technologies, a software technology company based in Mumbai. He shared the responsibility for Magnet’s day to day operations and led company’s strategic planning, management, organization building and marketing efforts.
Prior to joining Magnet, Ashok worked with Henkel SPIC, the Indian subsidiary of German FMCG giant Henkel. At Henkel SPIC, he demonstrated exemplary sales performance in Mumbai, Pune & Nagpur. He was credited with turnaround of Western Maharashtra & Vidharbha region and building MIS driven systems. He also consistently achieved sales targets, widened distribution, effectively managed new retail formats, launched key brands and attained 100% sales force retention.
Ashok graduated from Narsee Monjee College in April 1999 with specialization in Accountancy & Computer Applications. He was awarded the Jamnabai Narsee Shield for Best Student of Narsee Monjee College for his outstanding performance in academic and extra-curricular activities.
He completed his post graduation in management with specialization in marketing and finance from S P Jain Institute Of Management & Research, Mumbai in April 2002.
He can be caught watching the latest movie flick, when not involved in animated discussions on future strategies. Traveling, reading, music and philosophy are his key interests. Ashok’s articles have featured in leading publications like Outlook Traveller, The Economic Times and Teens Today. He represented Henkel SPIC at ET Brand Equity Quiz. He is currently pursuing his PhD from Mumbai University.
