Kathryn Ashby 

Vice President, Finance  

Kathryn Ashby is the Vice President of Finance. In this role, Ashby oversees financial support for hospital, ambulatory, and system wide operations and enterprise financial analysis, financial reporting, operating and capital budgeting and forecasting, cost accounting, financial decision support and enterprise margin improvement.

Prior to this role, Ashby served as Cone Health Executive Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, where she led the Financial Planning, Decision Support/Cost Accounting, Productivity Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Reimbursement, Capital Planning, Reporting and Analysis functions.

Since beginning her career at Cone Health more than 17 years ago, Ashby has served in a variety of positions of progressive leadership responsibility in the finance department, from management accountant to senior financial analyst and Director of Financial Planning & Analysis. 

Ashby holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration and German studies from Guilford College and an MBA from Elon University. She was also named by Triad Business Journal in 2023 as one of the Top 40 Leaders Under 40.