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Ashley Thomas

Product ManagerX, The Moonshot Factory

Biography

Ashley is an entrepreneur and engineer focused on innovating energy and water technologies to enable access for the world’s poor. She loves bringing novel ideas into reality and scaling them- to date, product she developed have been used by over 3 million people in 7 countries. She’s currently a Rapid Evaluator at X, starting moonshots for Alphabet’s next billion users in emerging markets. Prior to joining X, she worked for M-KOPA Solar (Africa’s largest solar home system company) and Innovations for Poverty Action, where she led the engineering team working on Nobel Prize winner Michael Kremer’s Safe Water project. She holds multiple patents and led one of X’s major open sourcing efforts in conjunction with publishing the work in Nature.