Gena Ashe is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Anterix. She leads the company’s legal, compliance, and board affairs functions; sets the overall legal strategy; and provides legal guidance to the CEO, senior executives, and board of directors.
Prior to joining Anterix in 2019, Gena was the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Adtalem Global Education, a top global proprietary education and certification enterprise. She served as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of BrightView Solutions from 2012 to 2016 and held several senior executive legal roles for globally recognized companies including IBM, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Darden Restaurants, and PBS. She began her career at IBM as a microcomputer-based design electrical engineer and scientist.
Gena is on the boards of GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO) and Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKWD). Gena’s other board directorships include serving on the Board of Directors of the Executive Leadership Council and as an advisory board member for the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
Gena is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including NACD’s “Directorship 100,” Women Inc. Magazine’s Most Influential Corporate Directors, Savoy Magazine’s Most Influential Black Attorneys and Savoy Magazine’s Most Influential Black Corporate Directors.
Gena earned a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with a physics minor from Spelman College.
