Ascendion Appoints Four Former Banking, Retail and Microsoft Leaders to AI Advisory Community

Ascendion appointed Andy Gamble, Jack Madrid, Julieta Ross and Joseph Sirosh to its AI Advisory Community on October 27, 2026, the company said in a release published by Aktien. The four advisors will guide AAVA platform innovation, AI strategy, C-suite alignment and enterprise adoption across Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and the UK.

What Each Ascendion Advisor Will Cover

Each advisor maps to a different part of the business, according to the company. Ross, former Global CTO of Banco Santander, brings two decades of technology leadership inside global banks and public-company board experience. She will work on executive relationships, go-to-market strategy and growth, and on the governance, regulatory and risk expectations that banking and financial services leaders place on AI.

Gamble, former Group CIO of Currys plc, has spent nearly three decades as a technology buyer and transformation leader across consumer electronics, industrial and retail businesses. He will advise Ascendion's work in Europe and the UK, focused on consumer goods, manufacturing and retail, and will share what executive teams and boards expect from a technology partner.

Sirosh, former Microsoft CVP and CTO of AI, will advise Ascendion's engineering leadership on the evolution of AAVA and its broader platform strategy as AAVA becomes an orchestration and harness layer for enterprise AI. Madrid, former President and CEO of IBPAP, spent five years leading the industry association behind a technology and business-services ecosystem centered in the Philippines. He will advise on Asia-Pacific markets and on how AI is reshaping global delivery, skills and workforce models.

"Andy, Jack, Julieta, and Joseph have the experience and know where transformation succeeds," said Karthik Krishnamurthy, CEO of Ascendion. "They will challenge our thinking, raise our ambition, and help us navigate a period of intense — and exciting — change."

Ascendion's Scale Behind the Advisory Push

Ascendion is an AI-native software engineering firm based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, according to akta.pro company records. The same records list more than 11,000 engineering professionals globally, operations in 12 countries and more than 400 Global 2000 clients. The company was founded in 2022, and its AAVA agentic AI platform is used to modernize legacy systems for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises across banking, healthcare, high-tech and consumer industries.

Earlier Ascendion Moves Before the Appointments

In August 2025, Ascendion appointed Debashis Chatterjee, former CEO of Mindtree and a Cognizant veteran, to its Board of Directors, adding senior IT services scale-up experience, according to the same records. In June 2026, ISG recognized Ascendion as a leader in integrated platform and application services in its 2026 report, Stock Titan reported, citing the firm's work deploying AI for enterprise modernization. In August 2026, Schreiber Foods formed a multi-year strategic alliance with Ascendion to implement agentic AI technologies across its global operations, Third News reported.