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Aokah Founder Recognized for Strategic Leadership in Driving Client Outcomes Through AI-Powered Orchestration
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2025
Aokah announced that its Founder and Chairman, Atul Vashistha, has been named Strategic Leader of the Year at the 2025 Global Sourcing Association (GSA) Awards, held on Oct. 1 at The Brewery, in London. The award recognizes leaders who are reshaping how enterprises achieve business outcomes through innovation, collaboration and impact.
The honor underscores Aokah's client-first mission to help enterprises execute complex global programs with clarity, speed and confidence. Aokah's AI-powered Execution Intelligence and Orchestration Platform enables organizations to move from static consulting models to real-time, adaptive decision-making, ensuring every initiative delivers measurable value.
Commenting on the award, Atul Vashistha said, "This recognition reflects the success of our clients and partners who are redefining how execution happens. At Aokah, our focus is on enabling organizations to anticipate disruption, govern with precision and scale responsibly. The real achievement is seeing our clients move from complexity to clarity -- faster, smarter and more resilient than ever before."
The GSA Awards celebrate organizations transforming global service delivery through innovation, operational excellence and collaboration. This year's submissions showcased groundbreaking work in sourcing, digital transformation and AI-driven operations.
GSA CEO Kerry Hallard said, "Under Atul's leadership, Aokah has developed a unique orchestration model based on five integrated foundations -- Program, Geo, Talent, Ecosystem and Delivery Wisdom. These work together to unify governance, data and AI, empowering enterprises to design, build and scale Global Capability Centers (GCCs) that adapt dynamically to change."
For clients, this means faster time-to-value, lower execution risk and the ability to recover predictively -- all while maintaining operational resilience and governance integrity.
About the Global Sourcing Association (GSA)The Global Sourcing Association is the industry's leading authority promoting best practices, standards and innovation across strategic sourcing, outsourcing and global services. The GSA connects buyers, service providers and advisors to shape the future of global business excellence.
About AokahAokah is an AI-powered orchestration platform that helps enterprises execute with precision, resilience and intelligence. By unifying strategy, talent, location, vendor and delivery insights into one adaptive platform, Aokah enables GCCs to scale faster, mitigate risk proactively and achieve outcomes with confidence.
Mphasis Invests in Aokah to accelerate AI-driven transformation for global operations and capability centers
New York | Bengaluru, July 25, 2025
Mphasis, (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS), an Information Technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, announced that Mphasis Corporation, USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, on July 10th 2025, has acquired a 26% preferred equity stake in Aokah a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company designed to help enterprises set up, scale, and optimize next-gen Global Capability Centers (GCCs), to drive speed, intelligence, and efficiency. Through this strategic investment, Mphasis is poised to offer global enterprises who are looking to set up/optimize GCCs, a Human-Led, AI-Powered end-to-end lifecycle support services and transformative solutions, thus building high-performing GCCs that drive innovation, resilience, and long-term business impact.
Aokah drives outcome certainty with a category-defining platform that unifies real-time data insights, intelligent automation, and strategic wisdom in an execution hub that stakeholders can access anytime, anywhere. At its core are five foundational engines:
1. Program Wisdom: Protects initiatives against delay and drift
2. Geo Wisdom: Finds the best-fit city and location for scale and resilience
3. Talent Wisdom: Surfaces the right talent at the right time
4. Ecosystem Wisdom: Orchestrates high-trust vendor ecosystems with built-in compliance and fallback options
5. Delivery Wisdom: Oversees operations and realizes outcomes
“Combining Mphasis’ technology and scale with Aokah’s AI, human insight, and execution orchestration, removes friction from global transformation and delivery initiatives, helping organizations operate with greater agility and precision. Their platform supports every stage of the GCC lifecycle, from identifying optimal locations using real-time, data-driven insights to building a future-ready workforce with AI-powered talent intelligence. By integrating AI innovation with our domain and delivery strengths, we aim to help enterprises unlock greater value in their GCC journey,” said Nitin Rakesh, Chief Executive Officer, and Managing Director, Mphasis.
“Aokah offers a smarter, faster, and risk-averse path to multiply an enterprise’s efforts to expand, transform, and optimize their global operations and GCCs. We are thrilled to have Mphasis as our early investors and partners as we build a world class platform to help Global Operations and GCCs move to orchestrated execution at AI-speed, enable seamless integration across enterprise and partner ecosystems, and automate governance to drive efficiency and scalability,” said Atul Vashistha, Chairman and CEO, Aokah.
About Mphasis
Mphasis’ purpose is to be the “Driver in Driverless Car” for Global Enterprises by applying nextgeneration design, architecture, and engineering services, to deliver scalable and sustainable software and technology solutions. Customer centricity is foundational to Mphasis, and is reflected in the Mphasis’Front2Back™ Transformation approach. Front2Back™ uses the exponential power of cloud and cognitive to provide hyper-personalized (C=X2C2TM=1) digital experience to clients and their end customers. Mphasis’ Service Transformation approach helps ‘shrink the core’ through the application of digital technologies across legacy environments within an enterprise, enabling businesses to stay ahead in a changing world. Mphasis’ core reference architectures and tools, speed and innovation with domain expertise and specialization, combined with an integrated sustainability and purpose-led approach across its operations and solutions are key to building strong relationships with marquee clients.
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About Aokah
Aokah is the AI-powered Execution Intelligence and Orchestration Platform for global operations. Designed for enterprises
building or scaling Global Capability Centers (GCCs), shared services, and vendor ecosystems, Aokah delivers real-time
visibility, milestone governance, talent intelligence, and operations orchestration. With modular foundations—Program,
Geo, Talent, Ecosystem, and Delivery Wisdom—Aokah enables execution with speed, resilience, time to value, and
strategic alignment. Aokah is headquartered in the United States and operates in stealth mode as it prepares for a public launch in Fall 2025.
Aokah Appoints Robert Weltevreden to Board of Directors and Steve Rudderham as Chairperson of Advisory Board
New York, NY | August 21, 2025
Aokah, the Execution Intelligence platform orchestrating the next generation of global operations, today announced two strategic appointments: Robert Weltevreden has joined the company’s Board of Directors, and Steve Rudderham has been named Chairperson of the Aokah Advisory Board.
Robert Weltevreden is a globally recognized leader in business transformation and enterprise services, having served in executive roles at Novartis and Syngenta. He brings deep experience in building and scaling global business services as strategic infrastructure, driving digitization, and aligning operations with business growth imperatives.
Steve Rudderham currently leads global business services at Carrier and previously held senior roles at AkzoNobel, Kellogg, and Genpact. He is known for leading large-scale transformation programs across finance, HR, and digital operations and for shaping modern GBS operating models with a sharp focus on execution and value creation.
“At Aokah, we’re not just imagining a better way to set up and run global operations, we’re engineering it,” said Atul Vashistha, Chairman and CEO of Aokah. “Robert and Steve are true execution leaders who have operated at the intersection of transformation strategy and enterprise delivery. Their presence ensures we stay grounded in solving real problems, not just building software. They help us remain client-anchored and results-driven.” Robert Weltevreden, speaking on his appointment, said:
“What excites me about Aokah is its ability to operationalize strategy through intelligence and orchestration. Most platforms stop at insights; Aokah also enables action. In a world where speed, resilience, and governance matter more than ever, this is the platform every enterprise will need.”
Steve Rudderham added:
“Aokah is doing what most transformation programs struggle with: connecting talent, risk, vendor, and location decisions in real time. I’m honored to chair the Advisory Board and help shape how we engage clients, partners, and the global ecosystem to scale execution at speed.”
These appointments reinforce Aokah’s commitment to building a leadership ecosystem with real-world depth and strategic foresight. Together, Weltevreden and Rudderham will guide Aokah’s evolution from platform to industry standard for execution governance.
About Aokah
Aokah is the category-defining Execution Intelligence platform enabling enterprises to orchestrate global operations and capability centers with speed, resilience, and precision. Built around five integrated “Wisdom Engines”: Program, Geo, Talent, Ecosystem, and Delivery, Aokah unifies governance, data, and AI to accelerate global delivery, reduce risk, and align execution to enterprise strategy.