Consulting – Ash Verma

Ash Verma Consulting & Riddlebox Are Sponsoring the AJBN Annual Flagship Event

Ash Verma — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:12:20 +0000

Ash Verma Consulting are proud to be one of two food and beverage sponsors for the upcoming Asian Jewish Business Network (AJBN) flagship event on 26 October 2026.

The AJBN flagship event will be held at the London Marriot Hotel in Swiss Cottage and is set to welcome over 600 senior business professionals and owners and over 50 exhibitors for a day of ideas, opportunities and making meaningful business connections.

As a committed and long-standing member of the AJBN since 2019, Ash Verma Consulting is delighted to be supporting what is always an excellent business event that attracts a combination of entrepreneurs, professionals, investors and industry leaders from a range of different sectors.

Ash Verma Consulting As A Food & Beverage Sponsor For The AJBN Flagship Event

Ash Verma Consulting is one of two food and beverage sponsors for the AJBN flagship event, alongside Riddlebox, an AI-powered business growth and performance company, that Ash Verma is privileged to be the chairman of.

Ash Verma, chairman at Ash Verma Consulting comments: “I am delighted to partner with AJBN as this year’s Food & Beverage Sponsors and also, proud to have supported this great organisation since its inception in 2019″

As a non-executive director, strategy consultant and mentor and executive producer for independent film and TV projects, I provide coherent strategic choices and solutions by building alliances beyond goals and vision for tomorrow’s dynamic world.

With over five decades of senior leadership and multi-faceted delivery experience and expertise gained across the private, public and third sector, I support board directors, leaders, and senior management to evaluate change strategies, adopt responsible business practice, and introduce pathways for growth, diversification, and expansion through joint ventures in the UK and overseas markets.

I am also privileged to serve as Chairman of Riddlebox UK Limited, bringing my expertise in international trade intelligence and workplace wellbeing to support companies strategic direction, growth and expansion plans.”

Riddlebox, The AI-Powered Business Growth & Performance Company

As chairman of Riddlebox, Ash Verma is delighted to be involved with this innovative AI-powered business growth and performance company. Riddlebox helps leaders cut through the noise and focus on the issues that matter most. The company’s Help to Grow and Help to Expand pathways provide two routes for business to flourish.

Help to Grow identifies challenges across strategy, leadership, people, customers, and systems through a Bottleneck Quiz and recommends practical tools to address them. Meanwhile, Help to Expand provides trade intelligence to help businesses confidently identify and assess new market opportunities.

If you are looking to drive business growth and improve performance in your business, visit the Riddlebox website to explore our solutions and get in touch.

Non-Executive Director (NED) Services From Ash Verma

We provide non-executive director (NED) services to business across the private, public and third sectors. Ash’s over five decades of senior leadership and multi-faceted delivery experience is invaluable to board directors, leaders and senior management.

Businesses that partner with Ash Verma can effectively evaluate change strategies, adopt responsible businesses practice and pursue pathways for growth, diversification and expansion with confidence.

If you would like to discuss how your business could benefit from Ash’s experience and expertise as a board director, trustee and chairman, please email Ash: ash@ashverma.com.

Hillingdon Business Expo

Ash Verma — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:08:43 +0000

Real privilege and pleasure as Chairman of Community Connex to be with the team at the Hillingdon Business Expo 2025 held on 4 June 2025 at Brunel University, London.

Deven Pillay, our Chief Executive, was delighted to welcome Cllr Philip Corthorne, the Mayor of the London Borough of Hillingdon to our stand.

At Community Connex, “we strive to work with people with a learning disability, autistic people, those experiencing disadvantages, and their families to help them live healthier, happier, and inclusive lives”.

Our theme this year was to encourage and inspire the business community to become more involved in our advocacy, campaigns, and events to raise awareness and generally help people to understand how we make a difference to people’s lives. This year’s Expo helped us to achieve this.

Thank you, Andy Sharma and Kim McGearty, and all at Hillingdon Chamber of Commerce for organising another successful Expo and bringing major employers and a hundred local businesses together as exhibitors.

Community Connex operates across North-West London, Luton, and Oxford. We are keen to collaborate with like-minded people from across the UK, and overseas.

To find out more about “social giving” and responsible business practice contact me, ash@ashverma.com or visit www.communityconnex.co.uk

Does Caring For Your Employees Pay!

kinsh — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:51:29 +0000

All too often, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), unlike many major companies, fail to recognise that health and wellbeing in the workplace is central to a productive and happy workforce.

This is certainly something that I hear more of at the numerous business networking events and conferences that I attend, and indeed during one-to-one “health-checks” I conduct with businesses. Furthermore, many businesses simply do not have the resources or the skills to spot health related issues or how these often affect employee’s performance at work, not to mention the impact that these have on bottom-line.

The average London business of 250 employees loses around £4,800 per week, or some £250,000 each year due to sickness absence. Nationally, 10% of UK’s GNP is lost due to job related stress and only I in 10 companies have an official mental health policy in place. Some of the most common reasons for absences include mental health, musculo-skeletal conditions, and minor illnesses, such as colds and flu.

We have teamed up with Brunel University and the Health Committee of the Greater London Authority (GLA) to build on what is already known about employee wellbeing. In particular, we will undertake research to explore the perspectives and experiences about, and the facilitators and barriers to, enhancing health and wellbeing among a diverse range of SMEs.

Ash Verma with Dr Onkar Sahota, Chair GLA, Health Committee and Alison Davies, COO, Enterprise Wellness.

We will produce a report for various governmental and business bodies by April 2019, as a vehicle for building greater momentum on employee health and wellbeing issues and co-design innovative policy and practice solutions for SMEs. Solutions that will help businesses to better manage sickness and related absences and provide employees with a step-by-step guide to introducing policies and practices for creating a happy workforce.

Contact me ash@ashverma.com if your business would like to participate in this research.