Ashley is the Global Head of Philanthropy, Impact Investing & Sustainability, globally leading all “Tech for Good” work across Amazon Web Services (AWS). He deploys 3 types of capital – financial investments, advanced GenAI solutions and strategic capacity-building – to drive measurable public health, education, food security, environmental and human rights outcomes for 1 billion people across USA, LATAM, EMEA and Asia by 2030.

Over the next 5 years, his team will partner with 10,000 mission-driven organizations spanning the full spectrum from the world's largest Fortune 500s and governments to early-stage start-ups and NGOs, including foundations, financial institutions, family offices, multilaterals and impact investors.

In 2026, he partnered with the Gates Foundation to launch the world's first 14-country pathogen intelligence platform “PathGen”, designed to predict the next pandemic. With Temasek — a top-10 sovereign wealth fund managing $430 billion in assets — he powered two of the world's largest sustainability and education platforms: The Liveability Challenge (TLC) and the Global Edtech Startups Awards (GESA).
Structuring Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with national governments, his work has included running Kenya's Health Ministry system dispensing antiretroviral drugs to 1.2 million HIV patients across 2,200 facilities, providing critical care for 94% of the country's HIV-positive population; and powering Nigeria's Three Million Technical Talents (3MTT) program to equip three million citizens with cybersecurity and AI/ML skills by 2027.

His team was instrumental in saving Ukraine's digital public infrastructure during the ongoing war, migrating critical national systems into the cloud to protect them from both virtual attacks and physical bombs, a>$75 million commitment that earned AWS the Ukraine Peace Prize. In education and healthcare, his team deploys unique global “digital commons” public goods to underserved communities like the AWS Education Equity Initiative, a $100 million commitment powering edtech solutions for at-risk learners and the AWS Health Equity Initiative committing $60 million to extend global healthcare access to 109 million underserved patients.

Ashley oversees Amazon-wide “AI For Good”, a portfolio that has fostered US-China cooperation in education  by launching 12 AI centers providing STEM literacy to 13,000 underserved K-12 children across 119 rural schools in China –  and deploying GenAI-powered disaster response tools to support >200 humanitarian crises to-date, including 10 nations in 2024 affected by floods in Brazil, Kenya, Cambodia and Laos; earthquakes in China, Taiwan, Japan; and wildfires in Chile, Colombia and the USA.

He helps drive the world’s largest climate “data commons”, the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), providing free public access to air and water quality data, wildlife conservation datasets, forest health monitoring, weather prediction models and geospatial imagery. This work includes pioneering global coastline and waterbody monitoring in a five-way global collaboration with the UK, Japan, Africa, and the UN, and championing forest preservation in partnership with NASA and NOAA. This includes deploying grants through Amazon’s $100 million Right Now Climate Fund (RNCF), currently supporting 2,000 species and restoring 72,000 hectares of land across 16 countries.

Ashley also works at the intersection of geopolitics, technology, and peace-building. He has engaged on the Israel-Palestine conflict, facilitating an ‘economic peace process’ as an alternative to the political peace process, by mobilizing cross-border Israeli venture capital investment into Palestinian startups as a foundation for lasting regional stability. He has partnered with senior current and former White House officials on closed-door Track 2 B2B/B2G “Techplomacy” (tech diplomacy) and global security dialogues between the USA and China, identifying mutual areas of collaboration in anti-piracy and decarbonization.

Serving across 4 sectors including the Private, Public, Tech & Civil society and bridging 2 worlds between the East and West, Ashley previously held senior management roles at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Monitor Deloitte, and Booz & Company, where he helped build their Sustainability, Public Sector and Private Equity practices across the USA, Asia, and EMEA. He concurrently served as Global Head of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), structuring approximately $300 million per year of large-scale, multi-year, multi-country programs addressing the five Social Determinants of Health (sDoH) in lower-to-middle-income countries (LMICs) including China, Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil.

Ashley holds a Mid-Career Masters in Public Administration (MC/MPA) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he was among the youngest recipients awarded a Lee Kuan Yew scholarship and Mason Fellowship, with Harvard appointing US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns to be his advisor. He holds a law degree from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he became the first Singaporean re-elected to two consecutive terms on LSE's board. He is a member of the Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy network. He serves on multiple international boards and committees focused on environmental, public health, sustainable food, and human rights initiatives. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (YGL).