Ashley Coker, is a software developer who formerly worked as an IT contractor for Sky TV.

He is the CEO and founder of Slate Apps, a technology development consultancy that helps enterprises, such as Nationwide Building Society and Aggregate Industries, to accelerate their digital change by providing small, capped teams of software engineers who work alongside enterprise IT teams, challenge corporate thinking and inject fresh coding skills to transform project thinking into product thinking.

Slate Apps hires highly-skilled technology specialists and problem-solvers, who do not wish to work as corporate employees and whom corporates could not otherwise reach.