Ashok Vantipalli assumed his role as Chief Information Officer at TireHub in 2018. Shortly after Vantipalli joined TireHub, he helped scale the new company for growth – building a technology vision and strategy, a team, key partnerships and digital products ground up. In his current role, he oversees product development and deployment of customer facing SaaS capabilities and internal IT capabilities for 70 distribution centers and employees.
Prior to joining Tirehub, Vantipalli served as the Global Vice President of Application Delivery at Sage Software where he was accountable for the Digital Transformation of the business from an on-prem to a SaaS company. He was also responsible for transforming 10 regional technology teams into one global function with shared services.
Previously, Vantipalli spent more than 15 years in technology and management consulting, serving financial services, media and healthcare clients while at Mckinsey and Alvarez and Marsal (A&M). During his tenure at A&M, he served as interim CIO/CTO and was responsible for technology transformation initiatives for his clients. He also served as the Head of Technology Operations (U.S., Europe and Asia) for the largest bankruptcy & turnaround in U.S. history – Lehman Brothers.
Vantipalli received a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and statistics, with a concentration in computer science, from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He later earned a master’s degree in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Residing in Milton with his wife and three kids, Vantipalli is an active member of the Atlanta technology community and a board member at TechBridge – a non-profit that supports smaller non-profits with technology needs to increase their mission outreach.