Ashish Piplani
Founder & CEO building agentic commerce infrastructure
Singapore
Summary
Operator with deep Southeast Asia e-commerce experience — Ashish has held multiple product, analytics and business-owner roles across leading e-commerce and consumer internet companies (Grab, Lazada, Flipkart, PayPal). He led GrabUnlimited and loyalty/omnicommerce initiatives, demonstrating experience scaling subscription and marketplace products in the region. grab+2
Founder-CEO building the 'agentic commerce' stack — transitioned from operator to founder to address how AI agents will shop, co-founding AirShelf AI to provide a data and trust layer (AX Score, golden records, agentic checkout) so brands remain discoverable and transactable by AI-driven agents. airshelf+2
Hands-on product and experimentation mindset — AirShelf's public work (AX Score, Gift Genius) and the team's job postings describe an AI-augmented, rapid-prototyping engineering and product workflow, indicating a preference for building productized experiments and agent skills to validate agentic commerce use cases. airshelf+2
Business education and cross-border study — holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore with exchange experience (Mannheim Business School, UC Berkeley Haas) and an engineering undergraduate degree; has produced academic-style deliverables during his MBA. prezi+1