Ashley is Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Head of Sustainability & Social Impact, the first Asian and Singaporean to fulfill this role in a Big Tech. He leads AWS “Tech for Good” work globally, deploying 3 types of capital – financial (funding), technological (advanced solutions) and human (technical expertise) – to drive positive environmental, public health, education, food security and human rights outcomes across the US, LATAM, EMEA and Asia. His team partners with mission-driven organizations across the public and private sector – from the largest Fortune 500s and Governments to the smallest start-ups and NGOs, ranging from Financial Institutions, Energy, Foundations and Multilaterals.

His team was instrumental in saving Ukraine's digital infrastructure amidst the ongoing war, migrating critical systems into the cloud to protect them from virtual attacks & physical bombs, a >$75 million commitment that earned AWS the Ukraine Peace Prize. In education/healthcare, his team oversees & provides unique global digital public goods to underserved communities like the AWS Education Equity Initiative (EEI) committing $100M to power edtech solutions for young at-risk learners & the AWS Health Equity Initiative (HEI) committing $60M to advance healthcare innovation.

As a global leader serving at the intersection of 4 sectors (Private, Public, Tech, Civil society) bridging 2 worlds (the East & West), Ashley fulfilled senior management roles at Boston Consulting Group, Monitor Deloitte and Booz & Company where he helped lead their Sustainability, Public Sector & Financial Services businesses across US, APJ, EMEA. He concurrently served as Global Head of Private-Public Partnerships (PPPs).
This includes establishing large-scale PPPs convening industry players to drive long-term transnational impact, like AWS as technology partner to large foundations such as Temasek (top 10 SWF, $500 bil AuM) where AWS powers the world’s largest sustainability/education platforms like The Liveability Challenge (TLC) and Global Edtech Startups Awards (GESA). With governments, PPPs include running Kenya’s Health Ministry system dispensing antiretroviral drugs to 1.2 mil HIV patients across 2,200 facilities, providing critical care for 94% of the population living with HIV; and powering Nigeria’s Three Million Technical Talents (3MTT) program helping 3 mil citizens gain technical skills in cybersecurity & AI/ML by 2027.

Overseeing Amazon-wide “AI For Good”, his team has deployed AI for underserved K-12 children in rural China – launching 12 AI centers across China providing STEM literacy to 12000 students from 115 schools; and AI for humanitarian crises – in 2024 alone, providing GenAI-powered disaster assistance to 10 nations for floods (Brazil, Kenya, Cambodia, Laos), earthquakes (China, Taiwan, Japan) & wildfires (Chile, Colombia, USA).
Ashley helps drive the world’s largest climate “data commons” – the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), democratizing free access to open data including air/water quality, forest health, weather prediction & geospatial imagery.

Ashley collaborates on peace-building & global security efforts. He has partnered with senior White House officials, both past & present, on closed-door Track 2 “Techplomacy” (tech diplomacy) & dialogue between the US & China, to identify mutual areas of US-Sino cooperation like pandemic prevention & piracy.
He has worked on the Israel-Palestine conflict to help facilitate an alternative ‘economic peace’ process (mobilizing cross-border Israeli investment into Palestinian start-ups) as a precursor to lasting peace in the Middle East.

Ashley graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as one of the youngest recipients of the Mid-Career Masters in Public Administration (MCMPA) with a Lee Kuan Yew scholarship & Mason fellowship. Harvard appointed Nicholas Burns, the US Ambassador to China, to be his advisor. Ashley is a member of Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy. He holds a law degree (LLB) from LSE, where he was the first Singaporean to be twice consecutively elected to serve 2 terms on LSE’s Board. He is a WEF Young Global Leader (YGL).