Ashley Campany is a senior associate on the Innovative Finance team at the Milken Institute. She is responsible for research, development, execution, and follow-up for the Institute’s Financial Innovations Labs. Campany has experience in marketing, fundraising, business development, and investor relations, working within financial institutions and startup ecosystems.

Most recently, she was responsible for strategic business initiatives, partnerships, and project management at a startup nonprofit organization, The ELLA Works Foundation. Before ELLA, she was an investor services associate at Centerbridge Partners, where she worked across private equity, real estate, and credit, providing servicing to Centerbridge’s institutional client base, responding to ad hoc investor inquiries and due diligence questionnaires, and reviewing capital fund activity. Previously, she was an investor relations associate at Foundation Credit, a boutique asset management firm focused on municipal credit, where she serviced its existing client base and cultivated relationships with prospective investors. Prior to Foundation Credit, she focused on business development and partnerships at Loeb Enterprises, a New York-based private investment and venture collective. Campany graduated from Union College with a BA in political science.