ASH LUTHRA is the President & CEO of LSL Industries, Inc. He started the company in 1985 with his brother V.J. Luthra. LSL manufactures disposable medical devices for Acute Care, Long Term care, Surgery centers as well as Alternate Site Care. Company has been slowly and successfully vertically integrated it's manufacturing processes to lower manufacturing costs and all of their kits are made in USA. LSL's major growth and significant increase in business and employment has resulted from winning contracts with GPOs within the last 8 years.

Ash Luthra has a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, an MBA from the University of Chicago Business School and attended Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth on "How to Build High Performance Minority Businesses". He also served in various managerial capacities in the areas of Strategic Planning, Marketing/Business Planning and Capital spending at American Can and SCM Corporation.

Ash Luthra currently serves as a Board member on the newly established National Advisory Council for Minority Business Enterprises (formed by the Obama Administration) to provide advice and recommendations to The Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and the Obama Administration on a broad range of policy issues affecting the minority business community as part of the Obama administration's focus on creating new jobs and strengthening the U.S. economy. 

He also serves on the Board of Health Industry Supply Chain Institute, and the Development Council of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. He is married and has three kids currently in college.

Ash Luthra also actively supports various charities in and around Chicago as well as in other parts of US and internationally, including a physical therapy clinic in Delhi, India specifically for seniors with low incomes.