John Ashley

John Ashley leads the Global Financial Services and Technology team at NVIDIA. His team focuses on global trends and directions in accelerated compute and AI for the entire sector—from hedge funds, fintech, and banking to insurance. NVIDIA supports customers and partners in their adoption of accelerated computing and AI and machine learning techniques to improve time to insight, enable expanded analytics around risk and fraud, and dive deep into customer data to address key business problems. He also started and led the Professional Services Deep Learning Practice for NVIDIA and the NVIDIA Deep Learning Professional Services Partner program, managed the relationship with IBM’s Software and Cognitive Solutions groups, was a senior solutions architect for financial services in New York and London, and supported NVIDIA’s work with the Square Kilometer Array radio astronomy programs. He holds a doctorate in computational sciences and informatics and BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering. His past work experience can best be described as varied—he has been a data scientist, project manager, systems architect, database administrator, and developer and has worked in vendor, consulting, and end-user firms in utilities, government, and finance. He holds a U.S. patent in predictive analytics.