Ashley brings more than thirteen years of expertise in fintech, financial services, and payments innovation to serve Glenbrook’s clients. She specializes in emerging digital currencies, such as central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, cryptocurrency, and blockchain-based tokenized deposits and digital asset platforms. Ashley also has experience in global instant payment system development. She approaches these subjects from economic, policy, and technical perspectives, and she is passionate about responsible and inclusive technology innovation to serve global development, business, and policy goals.

Prior to joining Glenbrook, Ashley was a Digital Finance Expert at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she advised central banks in their national payment system innovations, centering on CBDC capacity building, research, and education. At the IMF, Ashley held a unique dual role with both the economic policy division (Monetary and Capital Markets) and the technology innovation team (Digital Advisory Unit), leading efforts ranging from the IMF’s foundational paper on CBDC and financial inclusion to analysis of the technical trade-offs of blockchain technology for tokenized central bank reserves.

Prior to the IMF, Ashley spearheaded publications and projects at the World Economic Forum on CBDC, the intersection of stablecoins and financial inclusion, and blockchain use cases and risks for the public sector. She started her career in institutional investment management, working for six years at BNY Mellon and other New York City area investment consulting firms.

Ashley has served as an expert contributor for The Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center, Central Bank Payments News, the Bank of England’s CBDC Technology Forum, and the World Economic Forum. She has presented at diverse global venues including the Bank for International Settlements, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, European Central Bank, Money 20/20, Wired, and CogX.

Ashley holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where she co-founded the Haas FinTech Club and co-developed the world’s first in-person blockchain executive education program. Ashley earned her B.A. with honors in Economics and European Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and member of American Mensa.