Ashley Heron

Ashley Heron is Managing Director of Comma Eight, a marketing technology company that helps fitness and wellness brands build and scale digital products, platforms, and data infrastructure.

SprintFWD works with growing operators such as Club Pilates, SkinSpirit, JECT, Xponential Fitness, Extraordinary Brands, and others to connect the technology and data behind their customer and marketing efforts without losing what makes each brand distinct.

Over more than two decades spanning entertainment, advertising, and technology, Ashley has led cross-functional teams across strategy, creative, media, product, and engineering. Before SprintFWD, he led HYFN, a division of publicly traded Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ: NXST). Ashley also held roles at The Walt Disney Company and Big Machine Label Group, where he worked on digital initiatives and marketing partnerships for artists including Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks, Rascal Flatts, Thomas Rhett, and The Band Perry.

Ashley has been a source for The New York Times on digital and social media and has spoken at SXSW, Digital Hollywood, and Social Media Week.

Ashley is also a speaker at Beyond Activ Américas en Dallas, Estados Unidos.