Ashley is an experienced and accomplished engineer with extensive experience in a wide ranging areas of electronics and systems engineering, covering complex systems and product design, together with their implementation, manufacture and deployment. He has run and helped develop numerous projects and businesses and products for both large organisations and small start-up companies.

Ashley is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the IET and has a degree in electronic engineering science from the University of Wales, he has been named on many patents. When he is not working, property refurbishment takes up most of his spare time.