Ashish Kohli
Ashish leads Vision Care across Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) to advance sustainable growth and market leadership. This includes strengthening our innovation pipeline, deepening value-added customer partnerships, and championing next-generation, customer-centric go-to-market models including digital and eCommerce ecosystems.
Ashish is a transformative enterprise leader with a 23-year track record of driving profitable growth and navigating complex regulatory landscapes across Asia Pacific. He is uniquely positioned to lead this chapter for our business, combining deep P&L expertise with a proven ability to modernize business models and cultivate high-performance, inclusive teams.
Ashish joins this role with significant momentum from his tenure as Regional Senior Director, Vision APAC, Commercial Operations. Acting as the region’s strategic architect, he engineered the Vision Growth Roadmap and Path to Profitability, successfully expanding margins. He stood up APAC’s data and analytics capability to modernize pricing, insights, and commercial decisioning & RGM, enabling double-digit revenue growth for key product launches like ACUVUE® OASYS MAX 1-Day MULTIFOCAL and TECNIS PureSee™.
Prior to Vision, Ashish served as Senior Director, EndoMechanical for Ethicon Surgical Care APAC. He successfully navigated the post-Covid “Business Build Back" strategy amidst complex Volume-Based Procurement (VBP) shifts.
Ashish brings a stellar academic foundation to his leadership. He holds a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB). A lifelong learner, he has completed executive certifications in Digital Transformation and Strategy at Harvard Medical School and MIT Sloan.