Ashley Ferguson

Ashley (Pelzek) Ferguson is an accomplished business executive currently serving as Chief Operating Officer at Guardian Agriculture since January 2025. Prior to this role, Ashley held the position of Vice President of Business Operations at Merlin from August 2020 to January 2025 and worked as an Associate at McKinsey & Company from July 2019 to August 2020. Ashley's academic background includes a Master of Business Administration from MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science-International Affairs from the United States Naval Academy. Notably, Ashley is a distinguished TOPGUN-graduate fighter aviator from the US Navy, where an impressive tenure from June 2006 to June 2017 included multiple combat and humanitarian deployments.