Meet Interpodia's Director of Product Development, Ashley Welsh

As Director of Product Development at Interpodia Technology, Ashley Welsh wears a lot of hats.

Some of his duties includes overseeing profit and loss to ensure product profitability, collaborating with sales and marketing to grow global sales, and monitoring metrics to provide insight on any improvements needed to our technology stack.

He also organizes internal processes across the product department, collaborates with the PM and implementation team to balance product advancement with product needs and translates stakeholder requests into company visions.

As you can imagine, Ashley has a strong educational and professional background that greatly qualifies him to oversee these various operations. Ashley has a Master’s Degree in Digital Media from UBC and SFU and an Undergraduate Degree in Cognitive Systems (computer science and psychology) from UBC.

Ashley’s educational background prepared him for a successful career which includes over 10 years of experience in technology consulting, technical problem solving, relationship development and project management. His expertise has qualified him to collaborate on multi-million dollar implementation projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design streamlined business solutions. He has led enterprise scale implementations across North America for public and private customers.

We recently got a chance to sit down with Ashley to find out a bit more about him and his role of Director of Product Development. Here is what we learned…

Q&A with Ashley Welsh

Before working at Interpodia, what was the most unusual or interesting job you’ve ever had?

Oh, there are so many; this is a hard one to answer. One of the most interesting would have to be when I was running a company that used stereoscopic cameras to capture 3-D point cloud data in public spaces. We analyzed the data in real time to identify when people stood at a specific location and served up interactive content tailored towards entertainment, infotainment, and advertising. Users were excited and engaged by the innovative product and they were able to interact by moving their hands and feet in free-space and by performing specific gestures.

How has Interpodia helped you in your career development?

Interpodia fosters a cooperative environment where you can make your role whatever you want as long as you’re working hard and adding value. My role has evolved quickly at Interpodia. After spending over 15 years building my repertoire of skills in technology project management, client services, and entrepreneurship, for the first time in my career I’m doing what I should be doing – working with an amazing team to create the technology that is best-in-class. Interpodia has helped my career innumerably.

What advice do you have for prospective Interpodia candidates?

Bring your A-game and expect to learn, grow and be challenged.

What has been your favorite project at Interpodia?

Right now, I am working on our new analytics and data extraction product for our clients, Interpodia Insights. It will allow our clients to more easily sort through and highlight insights from their organization’s database on the backend of our system.

What is your favorite sport to play/watch?

I love to watch Ice Hockey, but for my own fitness I love to mountain bike around our headquarters here in North Vancouver.

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