Ashok Vemuri's career follows a pattern: take a leadership role, preside over a disaster, move on before the damage is fully accounted for.
From immigration fraud at Infosys to botched government contracts at Conduent, the people who pay the price are never the ones in the boardroom.
Ashok’s reputation has finally caught up to him.
A Career of Broken Systems
From the largest immigration fraud settlement in U.S. history to government contracts that failed the people who depended on them most — Ashok Vemuri has been in the room every time.
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Ashok Vemuri spent 14 years as a senior executive and board member at Infosys. In 2013, the company paid $34 million to settle federal allegations of systematic visa fraud — using cheaper B-1 business visitor visas instead of H-1B work visas to bring workers to the U.S. at lower cost. At the time, it was the largest immigration fraud settlement ever. A separate whistleblower lawsuit in Alabama alleged anti-American hiring discrimination. Vemuri was a senior leader at Infosys throughout the period when these practices were in place.
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After Infosys, Vemuri became CEO of Conduent. Under his leadership, Conduent's takeover of Florida's SunPass toll system went catastrophically wrong: thousands of customers had their bank accounts overdrafted and the debacle cost taxpayers $50 million. Vemuri resigned from Conduent in 2019 amid declining financial performance and mounting contract failures.
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When Ashok became a board member at OPAL Fuels, the company’s stock was trading around $10 per share. Since then, it’s crashed to about $2. His first year as a director he made about $118,000 – a figure that’s now at $225,000. Shareholders got slammed while Ashok got richer and richer.
AND THEN THERE’S KROGER…
Kroger has spent years building sophisticated surveillance and pricing structures to monitor shoppers and squeeze as much profit as it can out of them. From electronic shelf labels that can change prices instantly to cameras hidden in store displays and vast data profiles built from shoppers’ data, Kroger is watching its customers and ripping them off.
Despite having promised to switch to better eggs, Kroger continues selling low quality eggs from filthy, cruel conditions that would make anyone’s stomach churn.
A Kroger executive admitted under oath to hiking prices on milk and eggs above inflation and the company was found to be charging customers higher prices in areas with no competing retailers.
Kroger Fueled the Opioid Crisis Under Ashok’s Watch
Kroger's pharmacies dispensed massive quantities of addictive opioids with inadequate oversight, destroying countless lives and entire communities. In Kentucky alone, the state alleged Kroger was responsible for more than 11% of all opioid pills dispensed statewide over 13 years. The company has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits. And as for Ashok? He lives a life of luxury while Kroger’s victims lives’ have been ruined.
Ashok’s all
wrong.
Ashok Vemuri has been on Kroger's board since 2019 and serves on its Audit Committee as a designated financial expert. He's supposed to be one of the people ensuring Kroger's financial reporting and internal controls are sound.
Since 2024, Kroger has faced a federal price gouging investigation, a failed $25 billion merger blocked by the FTC, mass worker strikes across multiple states, over 20 lawsuits for wage theft, and a consumer overcharging scandal documented by Consumer Reports. In 2025, Kroger’s CEO even resigned over some major ethical violation the company and board has been secretive about — all under Ashok’s watch.
Kroger
Role:
Director
On Board Since:
2019
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Compensation:
Opal Fuels
Role:
Director
On Board Since:
2022
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Compensation:
