At the India Innovation Fund, Ashwin Raguraman is responsible for initiating deal flows, fundraising, evaluating start-ups for investment and supporting portfolio companies in the technology sector.

In his earlier role at NASSCOM, Ashwin played an instrumental role in the creation of the India Innovation Fund. He managed the Innovation Initiative at NASSCOM and was entrusted with a mandate to increase innovation in the India Information Technology Industry. He was responsible for the creation of a Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems and an Auto Component-Information Technology cluster. He also lead the NASSCOM Innovation Awards program, which recognized the most innovative companies in the ICT sector.

Ashwin has earlier played business and operational roles at Wipro Technologies and Maersk, Singapore.

Ashwin has been a member of a Government committee, the SIP-EIT committee to evaluate start-ups for providing funding for International patent and the CII committee on Security and Imaging.

By education, he holds degrees in Mechanical and marine Engineering and a masters in business studies.