Aqil Ansari is a partnerships executive with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling Global Systems Integrator (GSI) alliances and OEM/channel motions that drive enterprise adoption of new platforms. He has led global joint go-to-market programs at Ericsson, HPE, Cisco, and ngena—establishing executive relationships and co-selling with Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte, Infosys, TCS, KPMG, EY, NTT Data, and Fujitsu. At Ericsson, he orchestrated Industry X solutions across manufacturing, energy, utilities, and transportation and delivered more than $100M in joint GTM sales, including a strategic edge/compute partnership with Dell Technologies. Earlier at HPE (post-Aruba acquisition), he stood up the company’s GSI networking initiative, generating $150M+ in alliance revenue and launching Network-as-a-Service offerings for global partners. At Cisco, he helped create the Accenture-Cisco Business Group and contributed to $800M+ in collaborative sales. At ngena, he led alliance strategy for a managed SD-WAN solution integrated with Cisco, building a $50M pipeline and $20M in joint revenue.

Aqil’s work centers on translating complex infrastructure into partner-led solutions and repeatable delivery frameworks. For Autheo, he focuses on activating GSI, OEM, and cloud alliances to accelerate institutional adoption of the platform’s Layer-1 infrastructure, modular SDKs/APIs, decentralized identity, and enterprise Web3 applications. His track record in pricing frameworks, co-marketing, field enablement, and executive alignment positions Autheo to scale developer onboarding, validator operations, and enterprise integrations through a trusted global partner ecosystem.