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14 Sept 2022
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Director – Asset Management | Atkins (Member of SNC Lavalin Group)

Ash Toma


Ash is the Asset Management Regional Director at Atkins and with over 20 years’ experience spanning across the full asset life-cycle. For the past 8 years, Ash has worked with multiple private and public sector clients in Middle East and prior to that he spent 13 years in the UK transport sector where he started his career as a graduate engineer.  He completed his engineering degree at University of Manchester before receiving a master’s degree in Computer Science at Brunel University.

He focus remains on improving asset management and facilities management services. When asked how?, Ash replied “Organizations need to transition towards digitization and leveraging emerging trends to become more data led decision makers. To effectively manage assets and thus deliver the services that our customers demand, we must obtain a comprehensive understanding of our asset, its condition, degradation profile and impact of failure. It is only then that we can make confident operational and strategic decisions that deliver efficiencies, improves performance and build a solid foundation for growth.” He continued: “As a sector we have fallen behind, other industries such as retail, manufacturing and banking, to name a few, have made tremendous strides towards using data and insight to redefine their business strategies and our industry needs to catch up. The great news is that the momentum had been building and there are many success stories that show tremendous progress.”