Board of Directors

Marcus spent twelve years as a platform engineer and engineering lead at MerchantOS, where he built internal orchestration systems that coordinated hundreds of microservices across CI/CD pipelines. He saw firsthand that the biggest bottleneck wasn't tooling — it was the gap between automated processes and the human decisions embedded inside them. He left MerchantOS in 2024 to start Ash, frustrated that no existing tool treated AI agents as first-class steps in a governed workflow.

Priya is a Partner at Orchestra Ventures, a $400M early-stage fund focused on developer infrastructure and AI tooling. She led their Series A investment in Ash and holds the designated investor board seat. Before Orchestra Ventures, she was an operator — founding and selling a CI/CD monitoring startup to MetricHound, then spending two years as a Director of Product integrating the acquisition. She has been on both sides of the table and invests in founders, not pitch decks.

Sarah spent seven years as VP of Developer Relations at InfraCore, where she built the community program from 5,000 to over 200,000 active members. She led the open-source strategy through the BSL relicense, ran three annual InfraConf conferences, and grew the certified practitioner program to 40,000 professionals. Before InfraCore, she was Head of Community at Capsule during the container boom, helping establish Capsule Hub as the de facto image registry. She started her career as a platform engineer at Blue Peak, contributing to Aurora Linux and later Orchestrate.

James was the first CRO at VeloCloud, joining at 30 employees and leading the commercial team through the transition from open-source NextGen.js to a $2.5B valuation. He architected the bottom-up developer adoption funnel — from individual developers deploying personal projects, to team adoption, to enterprise procurement with compliance and SSO. Before VeloCloud, he ran Americas sales for TeamForge's DevOps portfolio, where he learned to sell developer tools into organizations that had never bought developer tools before.

Dr. Elena Vasquez spent nine years as CTO at EuropaBank's Global Technology division, where she led the architecture review board that governed every software deployment across 26 countries. She built the bank's internal platform engineering division from zero to 400 engineers, introduced containerization in a mainframe culture, and chaired the AI governance committee that defined the bank's policy for LLM adoption in regulated workflows. Before EuropaBank, she was VP of Engineering at a GovCloud Certified-authorized cloud provider, where she learned to design systems that satisfy both auditors and engineers.