Ashley is an experienced Hotel and Tourism marketing leader with working exposure across Europe, the GCC & East Asia. He has worked in complex stakeholder environments and managed multi-lingual and multi-cultural teams. He brings a depth of experience in building and nurturing high performance teams which are greater than the sum of their parts, resulting in significant commercial success.
Over the past 15 years he has worked on sales and marketing strategies for Mandarin Oriental, Shangri-La, Marriott (Corporate and Property) and Small Luxury Hotels of the World. More recently he has been working on a range of property sales and marketing plans including significant time spent as property GM.
A C-Suite leader, with an international career which brings the benefits of a breadth of knowledge, diverse experience and interdisciplinary thinking to an ever increasingly complicated hotel landscape.
He graduated from the University of Reading, following up with an MBA from the University of Leicester and in 2022 completed a Mini MBA in Marketing.
Ashley holds Japanese Permanent Residency and spends most of his time in Japan since 2012 and is the Country Director Japan and co-founder of infinitude hospitality Japan KK.