Ashley also served as a Congressional staffer and worked as a television news producer covering the White House and Congress for the Washington Bureau of Belo Corp. 

Ashley has participated in numerous clean energy trade associations and is currently focused on renewable energy, critical minerals, offshore wind, and energy tax policy. She serves on the board of the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition and is a member of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy. Ashley is also an advisor at the start-up company BTR Energy, where she works with electric vehicle automakers on low carbon transportation programs. 

Ashley is principal of Ardeidae Group – a woman-owned Washington, D.C. advisory firm founded in 2019.  Website:  https://www.ardeidaegroup.com

Ashley holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications and a Master of Science in Broadcast Journalism both from Boston University.

Prior to these roles, Tom served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy; the Secretary’s senior official on all matters pertaining to energy sourcing, energy efficiency, and alternative fuels managing an energy investment portfolio of $1 billion annually. In concert with the Secretary’s energy vision, Tom established the 1 Gigawatt renewable energy initiative announced by the President which resulted in the procurement of more than 1.2 Gigawatts of renewable energy and cost savings in excess of $100 million. Tom led the creation of the Department’s $800 million public-private partnership accelerating the capacity of the advanced alternative fuels industry to provide hundreds of millions of gallons per year of military-compatible, low-emission alternative fuel price-competitive with conventional fuel.

Prior to the Navy, Tom was Vice President of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) and International Programs with the U.S. Green Building Council. Tom oversaw the implementation and expansion from four to seven individual rating systems while increasing presence to more than 120 countries yielding nearly 70,000 building projects totalling over 12 billion square feet. Tom led the wholesale re-engineering of the certification processes and business model, development of the volume certification model, and both brand and reference guide fulfilment, driving ten-fold net revenue growth.

Prior to the USGBC, Tom was a Senior Program Manager with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR® program. Tom created and managed the ENERGY STAR commercial building rating system enabling measurement and tracking of building energy performance on a 1 to 100 scale. To date, more than 400,000 commercial buildings totalling over 35 billion square feet of floor space have been benchmarked using the ENERGY STAR rating system and More than 25,000 buildings have been certified as ENERGY STAR with a cumulative cost savings of $3.4 billion and a cumulative greenhouse gas emissions savings of 17 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent.

Tom received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland and has completed coursework at The George Washington University, Said Business School at Oxford, and the Harvard Business School.