Strategy & Advising
Enterprise AI strategy, private equity and founder advisory, product roadmap definition.
Ashish Sharma
25 years as a project, product, and engineering leader across retail, insurance, legal, and finance, including the past decade at Electronic Arts, a global game developer and publisher. I've delivered large-scale projects, designed enterprise-grade products, and built C-suite tech strategy across finance, publishing, development, and analytics, always focused on impact and value.
AI & Advanced Analytics
AI-first intelligence platforms, semantic layers, and complex player or user data modeling.
Engineering & Transformation
Cloud-first platforms, hybrid game and software workflows, IAM, BI, and large-scale process transformation.
Recent Work
Jun 2023 - Present
Electronic Arts (EA)
Head of Product (2023-2026) and Engineering (2026 - Present) - AI Applications
- Designed, owned and operated EA's internal AI-first corporate intelligence platform that delivered multimodal AI insights to HR, Finance, Legal, Global Commercial Pricing and Corp Strategy teams.
- Unlocked $20M in first-year revenue uplift via the proprietary AI platform, with an additional $45M in optimized revenue forecast for the current fiscal cycle.
- Designed self-serve platforms that enable partner teams to build unified semantic data layers and train deep models on complex global dataset structures.
Nov 2021 - Jun 2023
Electronic Arts (EA)
Senior Director of Product, Game Development Technology
- Directed global product strategy for EA's cloud-first game development and build pipelines, enabling hybrid collaboration across 25+ international studios.
- Orchestrated the large-scale cloud migration of 45% of core products to Microsoft Azure while securing 99.999% system uptime across global source code networks.
- Reduced build generation latency and global asset distribution wait times by 50% through high-leverage cloud workflow innovations.
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Electronic Arts (EA)
Director of Product, Finance and Global Commercial Org
- Architected omni-channel commercial digital strategies to drive international growth, including high-volume game code digital fulfillment pipelines.
- Delivered product lifecycle management platforms to speed up product content pipelines that publish to first party EA platforms. Sped up content pipeline by close to 30%.
Earlier Experience
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018
Electronic Arts (EA)
Senior Program Manager - Finance
Orchestrated a multi-year global financial platform transformation with 100% accurate revenue recognition under evolving international standards.
May 2013 - Dec 2015
Visa
Technical Product Manager - Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Led highly audited cybersecurity and identity management initiatives across corporate core infrastructure.
Aug 2010 - May 2013
LexisNexis
Program Manager - Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Directed enterprise data infrastructure initiatives across Teradata warehouses and global CRM systems.
Advisory Roles
Jun 2026 - Present
Primary Venture Partners
Venture Advisor, Enterprise AI Strategy · San Francisco Bay Area (Remote)
- Direct strategic advisory initiatives for the investment team and early-stage startup founders within a premier New York seed-stage venture network.
- Evaluate emerging technology trends, assess macro technical architectures, and guide portfolio operators toward scalable, venture-backed growth paths.
- Advise founders on how product strategy, operating leverage, and systemic AI readiness directly impact their trajectory to breakout valuation.