Avinash Asthana
Regional VP, Forward Deployed Engineering Leader, Agentic AI @ Salesforce
- Role
- Regional VP, Forward Deployed Engineering at Salesforce
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Avinash Asthana
A technical sales and account executive with a 12+ years record of owning consumption revenue targets and driving enterprise-wide sales, migration, consumption, and expansion of AI, Analytics, and Automation software. As a trusted advisor to some of Salesforce and IBM\'s largest accounts by revenue, Avinash has extensive experience in building relationships with executives and designing and closing multi-year enterprise license agreements. Avinash brings deep experience in building high-performing technical Forward Deployed Technical teams to deliver innovative and successful outcomes for IBM\'s enterprise clients, worldwide. In 2024, he built a Responsible Gen AI Forward Deployed Engineering team for IBM\'s largest enterprise clients - Financial Services. He has led Pre and Post Sales teams to create differentiated sales and deployment methodologies for Cloud Native and On-premises requirements across multiple regulated industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Public, and Federal. Best of IBM award recipient | NLP Patents Holder | published Author | Industry Solutions ExpertAn avid technologist and strong advocate for deploying Responsible AI, Analytics and Automation solutions, Avinash is a published author on the topic of Trustworthy ML Ops in with over 15+ patents filed in the Natural Language Processing (NLP), ML, and Deep Learning space. He recently launched a Gen AI practitioner series for IBM\'s YouTube channel.
Experience
Regional VP, Forward Deployed Engineering
Oct 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US
Education
Tufts University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science
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