About Us
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Meet Our Leadership Team
Our team at Ashton Gray is a full-service provider in construction and real estate. We deliver turn-key construction and real estate development projects from start to finish.
Denver Green,CEO
Denver Green has over 20 years of experience in the real estate development, construction, and energy industry. He has started, built, and sold several companies in the construction and energy space. Ashton Gray was founded in 2018 by Denver and his partner, Jason Nowell. Together they built and stabilized a medical-centric real estate portfolio in excess of $210M. Denver is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), currently enrolled in the executive M.B.A. program at Harvard Business School, a board member of Family I.D., and leads the legacy team at the OKC campus of Life Church.
Jason Nowell,President
Jason Nowell has over 25 years of experience in the construction, real estate development and energy industry. An entrepreneur at his core he has started, built, and sold several companies in the construction and energy sector. Starting from scratch at Ashton Gray, Jason, acting again in a President C.O.O. role, built and established a real estate development portfolio in excess of $210M. Jason holds a general contractor license in 17 states and serves as the chairman of the board for Family I.D.
John Kilgallon,Chief Financial Officer
John Kilgallon has more than 25 years of corporate finance, accounting and investment experience across various company sizes, industries and investment structures. John has an extensive track record in corporate expansions, private and public equity and debt capital financings, restructuring and financial reporting. John earned an MBA from Oklahoma City University and a BS in Finance from Oklahoma State University. John currently serves on the President Council for OSU – OKC
Brandon Cheney,Vice President of Construction
Brandon Cheney has deep roots in the construction industry. He is the third generation in his family to choose construction as a career. Brandon began his career in 1997 as a laborer and recently celebrated 25 years in the industry. Brandon holds a degree from Oklahoma State University in Construction Management. He is a recipient of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering Construction Certificate Program. Brandon was a member of the City of Jones Small Business Group from 2017 – 2018. Brandon has three daughters who keep him busy with softball, gymnastics and enjoy all things outdoors especially rock crawling in their family Jeep.
Ben Davis,Executive Vice President, Real Estate Development
Prior to joining Ashton Gray, Ben spent the past decade as an attorney and partner with Hartzog Conger Cason, LLP, and Crowe & Dunlevy, PC. He is licensed in both Oklahoma and Texas. His extensive experience includes representing both private businesses and institutional lenders in all areas of real estate acquisition, finance, development, leasing, and sale of commercial properties, ranging from single-tenant projects up to multistate portfolios in excess of $500M. His experience also includes serving as transaction counsel to certain private equity firms in various mergers and acquisitions and the secured financing related thereto.
Jenna Adkins,Vice President, Real Estate Operations
Jenna Adkins has over 10 years of experience in land brokerage and development. Prior to joining Ashton Gray, she worked for a top land brokerage in Las Vegas and Southern California securing land for some of the country’s largest home builders, private investors, and family offices.
Cassidy Hedrick, CPADirector of Real Estate Accounting and Operations
Cassidy Hedrick brings several years of experience working in assurance services at a top-rated accounting firm focused on healthcare. She has experience in both for-profit and governmental healthcare facilities around the nation. She has been a CPA since 2016 and is an active member in OSCPA, AICPA, and CFMA to stay involved and up-to-date in our ever-changing environment.