Ash is the CEO and co-founder of Spark59. Before Spark59, he was the Founder and CEO of WiredReach, who built simple file and media sharing products used by businesses to share and collaborate around large files.Before that, he was the Director of Software Development at Telecom Technologies where he led the development team responsible for their distributed Voice over IP Softswitch product. Telecom Technologies was subsequently acquired by Sonus Networks in 2001.
Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework. Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, which he frequently writes about on his blog.
Ash hold a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology., and resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife, two children and two dogs.
Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works 2nd Ed.