Ashish Shrestha (Ash) is the CEO and Co Founder of Zyn Global and a recognised global leader in cybersecurity transformation. With close to two decades of experience, he has led large scale security and digital initiatives across complex global environments. Ash brings together strategic thinking, commercial awareness, and hands on execution, and also serves as Chief Information Security Officer for the business.

Before founding Zyn Global, Ash was Group Chief Information Security Officer at Jaguar Land Rover, where he led a major transformation of information security and cyber operations aligned to the company’s digital and data driven future. His work enabled innovation at scale while strengthening resilience, trust, and operational confidence. Prior to JLR, Ash served as CISO at, including but not limited to, Shell Energy, Clear Channel International, Lebara Group, where he introduced a value by design approach to cybersecurity, embedding business impact and customer outcomes into security decision making.

Across his career, Ash has led security strategy in financial services, telecommunications, retail, hospitality and leisure, media and advertising, and energy and utilities. His experience includes protecting critical national infrastructure and guiding organisations through complex cyber incidents. He is known for challenging conventional thinking and for building award winning strategies that deliver real business value, customer trust, growth and long-term resilience.

Ash is widely respected as a commercially astute, customer focused leader who balances bold vision with empathy, clarity, and disciplined execution. As a Senior Leadership, Ash has led Security in FTSE and NYSE listed organisations and delivered global security transformations across UK, Europe, APAC, North America and LATAM

His leadership has been recognised through industry honours, being named Global CISO 100 Award – 2025 Winner, inclusion in the CISO Power 100 Index 2025, and EU CISO of the Year 2024 Finalist. Ash regularly advises boards, investors, and executive teams, and delivers keynotes on global stages, including but not limited to, BlackHat, Evanta Gartner, Automotive Cyber Expo and the Global CISO and CIO Institute.

Ash holds an MSc in Network Computing from UCLan and has authored several industry publications on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), with over 150 global citations. Beyond his professional work, he is deeply committed to mentoring the next generation of cybersecurity leaders and contributing to a safer digital future. At Zyn Global, Ash is driven by a clear and meaningful mission to build a safer, more human digital world, led by values, trust, and purpose. He is committed to making information and cybersecurity leadership and strategic thinking accessible to all, so that no individual, institution, or organisation is limited by size, budget, or resources in their ability to protect their way of life. His vision is to help shape a digital world that is secure, trustworthy, and ethically aligned to humanity by design, enabling leaders and communities to understand cyber risk better and make clearer, more confident decisions in an increasingly connected world.

Ash remains deeply committed to giving back, he frequently advised and trained Cyber Crime Bureau of Nepal Police on numerous occasions and continues to support a non-profit initiative, focused on protecting young and vulnerable people from online crime, cyber bullying, and digital harm.

Ash’s leadership is shaped by a strong learn, unlearn, and relearn mindset and a belief that sustainable success is built through collective strength, trust, and purposeful leadership.