Ashley Francis
Senior Tax Advisor, Laird Norton Wetherby
Ashley Francis has been a CPA for 25 years in Seattle, WA. Her practice provides tax planning and compliance and fiduciary accounting services to ultra high net worth individuals and professional fiduciaries. She became fascinated by trust and estate taxation early in her career while working with estates in litigation. She shares her trust and estate knowledge on her weekly LinkedIn ‘Trust Tuesdays’ and is a member of the Seattle Estate Planning Council. She also offers consulting and education to other tax professionals wishing to confidently bring more fiduciary tax work into their practices.
She was also an early entrant into the AI world, sharing prompting and use case knowledge. Her contributions to bring AI to the accounting profession received recognition from Microsoft and she has been awarded the Most Valuable Profession designation for the second year in a row.