Ashley is Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Head of Sustainability & Social Impact, the first Asian & Singaporean to fulfill this role in a Big Tech. He leads AWS “Tech for Good” work globally, deploying 3 types of capital – financial (funding), human (technical expertise) & tech (advanced tech solutions) – to drive positive environmental, public health, education, food security & human rights outcomes across EMEA, Asia & the Americas. His team partners with mission-driven organizations of all shapes & sizes – from the largest Fortune 500s to the smallest start-ups, across Financial Institutions, Energy, Governments, NGOs & 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 cyberattacks & 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 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(10th largest SWF,$500 bil AuM) where AWS powers the world’s largest sustainability/education platforms like The Liveability Challenge(TLC) & 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 care for 94% of population living with HIV;& powering Nigeria’s Three Million Technical Talents(3MTT)program helping 3 mil people gain technical skills in cybersecurity & AI/ML by 2027.

His team oversees Amazon-wide “AI For Good”, deploying AI for underserved K-12 children in rural China–launching 12 AI centers across China providing STEM literacy to 12000 students from 115 schools; & 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 Harvard Kennedy Sch of Govt as one of the youngest recipients of the Mid-Career Masters in Public Admin(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.