Ash is an entrepreneur and a software inventor with an extraordinary ability to deliver. Ash founded NextAxiom Technology, Inc in May 2000 based on an invention that brings groundbreaking agility to business software applications. Before founding NextAxiom, Ash delivered the realtime assimilation of Red Pepper Advance Supply Chain Planning products within the PeopleSoft technology platform as a result of PeopleSoft’s first major acquisition. Ash also played a key role in PeopleSoft's merchant integration alliance program to incorporate independent merchants into PeopleSoft Business Network. As Director of Integration Technologies, Ash was responsible for delivering PeopleSoft's complete suite of integration technologies, including PeopleSoft's business components, real-time and near real-time application messaging solutions, that was deployed at over 4000 customers worldwide. While working for Red Pepper Software, Ash invented a semantic-based network transaction system for recoverability and high-availability of in-memory supply-chain planning and optimization servers. Ash holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.