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Ashley J. Morman, 2006 BFHS graduate, earns MBA

by For the Herald
| May 26, 2016 1:00 AM

Ashley J. Morman completed the Masters of Business graduate program at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas Saturday May 7, 2016 with a 3.97 GPA.

Following graduation from Bonners Ferry High School in 2006, Ashley completed her undergraduate degree in Business Administration with minors in Marketing and Spanish at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho in the Spring of 2010. She graduated from the college summa cum laude, and was voted by the faculty as the top business student of the year. As a junior at NNU, Ashley served in a summer intern program for Campbell Soup Company at Pleasanton, California. Her senior year she interned with J.R. Simplot Company in Boise, Idaho.

Immediately following her graduation from NNU, Ashley accepted a position from the U.S. division of Grupo Bimbo. With 10,000 products and 100 brands in 22 countries, Grupo Bimbo, headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico, is the largest bread company in the world. For three years, Morman worked as Account Manager in the Spokane, Washington office before accepting a position at the top sales office of Bimbo Bakeries USA in the United States. Located in Bentonville, Arkansas, the sales office services the Walmart Corporate account.

In 2015, Morman was selected as one of only three Grupo Bimbo Bakeries employees in the United States to join a team of 30 young executives from around the world in a week and a half conference at Mexico City, Mexico to study and project the impact of the millennial generation on the bread industry.

Ashley began the two year MBA program in 2014 while working full-time in the Bentonville, Arkansas Bimbo USA office.

Ashley Morman is the youngest daughter of Gayle and Marcia Morman of Bonners Ferry.