Ashly Mellor, Marketing Strategist and MarTech Builder

I took the long way here. Every mile of it counts.

The path

I started designing and coding in high school. After graduation I pressed pause to start a family, but the digital world intrigued me and I had to learn more. I went back to school for computer science until trend forecasting grabbed me, and I switched to Graphic Communications and Marketing. The tech side never let go of me. It still hasn’t.

I took a job with a school district teaching graphics and programming. When they decided to open the district’s first hybrid middle school, part time in person and part time online, I built the learning management system from scratch, wrote the curriculum, trained the entire staff, and started the district’s first marketing department. That’s how I got into marketing.

From there it took me everywhere. Food trend analysis, community planning and development, political campaigns, even public office. I spent ten years in grassroots work and loved every minute of it. I’d get handed an idea and an impossible deadline, and alongside incredible teams, I built the machine that made it real. Shaping our community that way set my soul on fire.

When life moved us to Texas, I landed at PrideStaff in 2024 while I figured out what came next. They brought me in to answer one question, how do we grow our clientele, and what we’ve built since goes well beyond it.

What I do

I move fast and I love to learn. My superpower is learning your industry and your business, then moving that damn needle in ways you didn't think were possible.