Ash started working in financial software soon after moving to New York after completing her Masters in Psycholinguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 2005. The depth of the industry captured her as did the challenges faced in designing for professional systems that constantly change due to innovation and regulation. She's been at Bloomberg for 8 years, first as an Interaction Designer in trading systems, then a Design Leader. Prior to Bloomberg she was part of a two-person design team at Murex in Paris. She earned a BSc in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University with a concentration in Natural Language Processing in 2003 and a MSc in Psycholinguistics at the University of Edinburgh in 2005.