Ashley Stowe, Ph.D.

Ashley Stowe, Ph.D., MBA, serves as chief growth and partnerships officer. In this role, he leads the company’s business development, government services, and research and university partnerships efforts focused on strategic growth. Under his direction, Strategic Growth and Partnerships will expand ORAU’s business and diversify the company’s business portfolio while leveraging strategic partnerships, the high-quality work and exceptional performance of ORAU’s people, and continue to grow toward national impacts.

Stowe is a recent graduate of the inaugural Porter Development Initiative Fellows Academy, where he led a presentation on nuclear energy as the keystone to East Tennessee’s economic future. The PDI Fellows Academy brought together business, higher education, government, economic development, workforce and nonprofit leaders from six states for a four-day leadership institute at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management.

Before joining ORAU, Stowe served as the director of Y-12’s Oak Ridge Enhanced Technology and Training Center since 2021. He had a distinguished 18-year career at the Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex, including serving as the university partnerships program manager, technology transfer lead, CNS engineering internships program manager, fellows program manager, and director of Y-12’s Nuclear Forensics and Detection Division.

Stowe also serves as an adjunct lecturer at the College of Business at the University of Tennessee, and is an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UT.

Stowe earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Florida State University and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Tennessee.