Ashley started her career as an FA-18F Weapons Systems Officer in the U.S. Navy. She served for 11 years and deployed in 2011 and 2017 aboard the USS George H.W. Bush in support of Operations Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), New Dawn (Iraq), and Inherent Resolve (Syria/Iraq). She graduated from the U.S. Navy's Strike Fighter Weapons School (better known as TOPGUN) in 2012 and spent 5 years as a Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor before separating from the service in 2017. Ashley graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2019 with her M.B.A., and worked as an Associate Consultant at the McKinsey & Company Boston office until August 2020. For the past 3 years, she has worked as the Vice President of Business Operations at Merlin, a Boston area frontier technology startup developing software to propel the future of autonomous flight.

Featured programmes and seminars

  • Transformational Leadership Programme for Managers. Mario Alonso Puig

    Start date: 02/02/2027

    This programme is designed to encourage participants to experience metanoia, a change in perception that allows them to see what was previously hidden.

  • Workshop on Leadership and Civic Action

    Start date: 05/04/2027

    The aim of this programme is to strengthen the leadership of civil society organisations in Spain and to promote an international vision on the challenges and opportunities of the sector.

  • Workshop Frontiers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Start date: 07/06/2027

    The aim of this programme is to analyse the latest developments in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship from a multi-sectoral perspective. Led by MIT professors.

  • Workshop in International Economics

    Start date: 07/06/2027

    Programme aimed at Commercial Technicians and State Economists, university professors and Spanish researchers to share knowledge in international economics.