Ashwin Rangan joined the walmart.com team as Chief Information Officer in April 2005. Prior to this assignment, he served as senior vice president and chief information officer of Conexant in Newport Beach, CA (www.conexant.com). Ashwin was a member of the founding team that spun-out Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (in January 1999) and created Conexant. Prior to joining Rockwell Semiconductor Systems in 1995, Rangan served as senior manager of Demand Management Systems at AST Computer in Irvine, CA, until AST was acquired by Samsung Electronics.

Besides work, Ashwin is associated with several start-ups and early-stage companies in California, serving variously as mentor and advisor.

 He is socially active besides. Ashwin served as the President of the Indus Entrepreneurs organization (www.tie.org) chapter of the OC and LA in 2004. He Chaired the UCI Graduate School of Management (GSM) Corporate Partners Program in 2003. Ashwin is now very actively engaged with the CIO Institute, and is a Member of the Governing Body in both NorCal and SoCal. He occasionally teaches the MBA class at local Universities.

Ashwin has a Masters in Industrial Engineering and Management with an emphasis on IT and Operations Management from NITIE, Bombay (www.nitie.edu), and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore, India (www.uvce.com). He is accredited with both CPIM and CIRM by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (www.apics.org). He is accredited with both CSP and CISA. Ashwin was most recently accredited as a Certified Corporate Director by the Anderson School at UCLA. He is a long-standing member of the International MENSA.

Ashwin and his family – his wife, Deepa and their twins, daughter Taara and son Soorya - moved to the Bay Area from Orange County, CA, in 2005.