About La Gantry
La Gantry is a boutique advisory firm founded and operated by Ashley Keating. La Gantry partners with CEOs and executive teams through pivotal moments of growth and transition — from scaling operations, to building high-performing management teams and stronger board alignment, to preparing for exit or executing post-merger integration.
“We want to help clients create optionality and make strategic and financial decisions on their terms, ensuring every decision aligns with long-term success.”
— Ashley Keating, Founder and CEO
Meet Ashley Keating
Founder and CEO
Ashley is dedicated to elevating and empowering exceptional teams with talent. She is energized to work alongside teams where she is aligned with the vision, can make a significant contribution, and feels a cultural fit. Her skill set is most aligned to support growth stage companies pushing to scale, professionalize and maximize value.
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Ashley Keating is an accomplished executive with 20 years of experience leading finance, M&A, capital raising, operations, governance, and strategy for a diverse range of organizations, including private companies, Fortune 500 corporations, private equity firms, and venture-backed businesses in the U.S. and Europe. Her career spans key roles in both the corporate and venture capital worlds, where she has demonstrated a consistent ability to drive growth, build high-performing teams, and lead complex financial and operational initiatives.
Ashley has served on the boards of several high-growth companies, including Medpace (NASDAQ: MEDP), where she contributed to a growth from $2B to $11B in market cap over her five-year tenure. She also currently serves on the board of Abre, an innovative K-12 edtech data intelligence platform. Ashley helped build the executive team that drove seed capital investment and revenue growth that led to a successful $24M Series A financing round. In 2024-25, she sat on the board of TeamCentral, an intelligent data automation company unleashing AI for the mid market enterprise, helping them to close their $4M seed round.
Prior to establishing La Gantry, Ashley was a Partner at CincyTech, a seed stage venture capital firm. She was responsible for sourcing investments, raising capital, driving deal flow, and building relationships with co-investors. Prior to becoming a Partner, Ashley served as CFO at CincyTech, where she built the firm’s financial and operational platforms from the ground up, managing 20+ funds and leading efforts in capital raising process, stakeholder reporting, tax strategy, HR, IT and compliance.
Earlier in her career, Ashley was a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), advising on over $19B in M&A transactions across a variety of industries for PE and strategic clients. She led international teams through complex due diligence processes and post-merger integrations, focusing on financial strategy and operational efficiency. She earned her CPA license early in her career and continues to keep it active.
In addition to her professional work, Ashley is passionate about maintaining an active lifestyle and enjoys competitive pursuits and spending time with her family. Her diverse experiences and personal resilience shape her approach to business—one grounded in gratitude, humor, and a relentless commitment to building companies with high-performing, collaborative teams and engaged boards.
How We Work
As a trusted partner, I bring strategic finance and transaction expertise, operational discipline, growth strategy, and hands-on leadership. I flex into roles as a fractional executive (COO/CFO), strategic advisor, or board member — depending on what the business needs most.
What Sets Me Apart
Unlike typical fractional executives or consulting firms, I bring flexibility. I can embed directly into operations or serve as an advisor, shifting seamlessly between roles as your business evolves. I thrive on building businesses — pushing leaders further, strengthening teams, and filling critical gaps along the way.
