About
Dr. Michael Ashley

Dr. Michael Ashley joined Rummer Development as CTIO to bring invisible technology and longevity design into the next generation of Rummer homes. His career traces the architecture of human dwelling from the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey, one of the earliest sites of community housing and agriculture, through the foundational land survey for NEOM, Saudi Arabia's planned future city. Across that arc, the focus has stayed constant: technology in service of how people inhabit place.

A serial entrepreneur with a social-benefit orientation, Michael co-founded the Center for Digital Archaeology (CoDA), serving as Executive Director and as Director of Development for Mukurtu CMS, an open-source digital heritage platform used by Indigenous communities and Native Title corporations worldwide. He co-founded Codifi in 2014 to develop an archival field recording platform supporting companies and projects internationally. Following Codifi's 2019 merger with cultural resource management firm PaleoWest, Michael served as CTO and later as President of the Codifi subsidiary, helping shepherd a private equity acquisition that grew Chronicle Heritage into the largest cultural resource management firm in the world. He completed his founder exit in 2024 and turned his focus to longevity living.

Michael lives the longevity vision he is bringing to Rummer Development. With his wife, teenage son, and pets, he renovated a ranch-style home near Naples in southern Italy into a working prototype with circadian-adaptive lighting, mineralized well water, off-grid solar with battery backup, and integrated meditation and movement spaces, all governed by an automation layer he architected end to end. There he developed a protocol that healed his 38-year autoimmune condition and brought his biological age twelve years below his calendar age. Dr. Ashley holds a third-degree black belt in Yongmudo from Yong-In University in Korea and UC Berkeley, where he earned his PhD.