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Ashok
Mehan, CEO
Adezza Federal Consulting, LLC
Mr. Ashok Mehan is a veteran hands-on CEO with proven IT industry
vision and extensive business management experience, particularly
in engineering turnarounds. He has built a successful business
from the ground up, selling both products and services into the
Commercial and the Federal Government marketplaces. With more
than seventeen years of hands-on experience in all areas of
people and financial management, he launched Adezza Federal
Consulting, LLC in September 2001.
With considerable personal, corporate and entrepreneurial
recognition for his business innovation skills, his first
industry award came with a Top 25 company ranking in the
government IT marketplace from
Government Computer News.
He then received the prestigious
Blue Chip Enterprise Initiative
Award for Strategy Innovation in his company, and was
recognized by Industry Week
magazine as one of the “Top 25 Most Successful Small Companies in
America”. Washington
Technology magazine recognized his business model
innovation efforts in a special section on minority businesses,
and Government Computer News
and Federal Computer Week
gave his company five Reviewer’s Choice and Best Buy awards
spanning over four years. Mid Range ERP magazine and The
Washington Business Journal wrote on the extraordinary
accomplishments Mr. Mehan was able to engineer as a small IT
business. Unisys Federal Systems recognized his company with an
“Excellence in Service” award for providing unparalleled customer
service. He has also received four consecutive Ventures
International Top 100 awards, Washington Technology Top 50, and
National Fast 500 awards amongst others.
Mr. Mehan was born and raised in India in a family where success
was a fundamental core belief. He was fortunate to have studied
at one of the country’s top institutions, and received the US
equivalent of an Ivy League education. At the age of 24, he
traveled to Salzburg, Austria where he completed a vocational
management study in the hospitality industry. Mr. Mehan came to
the United States in 1983, and chose to earn an MBA with a major
in Information Systems while working full time. He completed his
MBA in 1987, and founded his own company, SMAC Data Systems, in
December of 1990.
The company succeeded by seizing market opportunities as the
computer marketplace matured. In the early 90’s, the
company became well known for its knowledge of the computer
industry, and grew rapidly by serving the needs of the many small
computer manufacturing and reseller firms in the Washington metro
area. While extremely successful and highly profitable, in early
1995 Mr. Mehan, a strong believer in strategy innovation, morphed
his company from just selling IT products to a high-end systems
integrator, and averted the rapidly advancing wave of competition
from national chains selling similar products. Then again in
early 1998, the company made another innovative move
that expanded the company to a full service network engineering
firm, and revenues surpassed $25 million with
healthy profitability. Mr. Mehan sold SMAC Data Systems in mid
2001, and in September of 2001, he founded Adezza Federal
Consulting, LLC, a firm specializing in helping small firms win
government contracts. Adezza now has four
government contracts that its clients are authorized to use for
selling into the federal government ranging from consulting work
in Information Security, E-learning and Network Engineering to
software development. The company moved toward a Top Secret
facility clearance for consulting with senior officials in the
Department of Defense and Homeland Security arenas. Adezza has
already proven successful for many small businesses, and
continues to work very closely with government contracting firms
to enhance their business development efforts.
Mr. Mehan belongs to the Montgomery County (Maryland) Technology
Development Council (MTDC), and is a member of the County IT
Steering Committee, the Maryland Incubator Advisory Board, and
also an active member of the County Education Workforce
Development Committee. He is a charter member of the Indian CEO
High Tech Council, and a board member of the Indian American
Leadership Institute, which is active in identifying young
political leaders. In addition, he teaches classes on Strategy
Innovation for Business Administration at the University of
Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Mr. Mehan and his wife, Archisha, have twin boys, who
are four and a half years old. Contact address: 13708 Ginkgo
Terrace, Rockville, MD 20850.
amehan@adezza.com
[Source: Indian American
Leadership Incubator, with permission from Ashok Mehan] |
