Ashley is a Tax Manager at Tanner LLC. She graduated from BYU with her Master’s of Accountancy and has about five years of experience in public accounting. Ashley has worked with many different industries and sizes of clients in her public accounting career and is excited to help Lassonde’s up-and-coming businesses with any tax questions they may have. Ashley enjoys traveling (Iceland, Costa Rica, and Kauai have been a few recent highlights), college football, and working with animals.

Kyle is an Audit Manager with Tanner LLC who has close to 8 years of experience in public accounting. He joined Tanner after graduating with his Master’s of Accountancy from Southern Utah University. He’s a recent graduate of the AICPA’s Leadership Academy. He’s also very involved in the firm’s recruiting efforts, internal training, and the firm’s consulting practice in areas of due diligence and business transactions. He’s an avid outdoorsman enjoying activities in the mountains or on a r

Blake has experience in for-profit, and non-profit sectors as a design anthropologist, tinkerer, educator and is perpetually curious about design thinking (human-centered design). As an experience designer, his passion is looking for ways to design meaningful experiences, spaces, and products.

Tony Passey is founder and CEO of Firetoss, a marketing and web development firm in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is also an Assistant Professor, Lecturer in the Marketing Department of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Firetoss provides SEO. marketing and creative services to firms across the nation.Tony created a new digital marketing curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students that applies marketing strategy to project-based assignments.

Let’s start the year off right! Join us to celebrate the second Lassonde 400, the L2 group, on Friday, August 18th. We’ll start at 4 p.m. with a brief presentation you won’t want to miss. The party will feature amazing company, free food, music, a photo booth and just a little seriousness. Special guests include Lassonde Institute Executive Director Troy D’Ambrosio, Eccles School Dean Taylor Randall and Lassonde student directors. *NOTE: This event is for Lassonde Studios residents only