Grand Canyon University - Ken Blanchard College of Business

Faculty Biographies

Ashley Gillihan is a member of Alston & Bird's Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation Groups in Atlanta. Mr. Gillihan focuses his practice exclusively on health and welfare employee benefit compliance and litigation issues for employers, health plan administrators and other health and welfare benefit plan service providers. He also has extensive experience assisting financial institutions and insurance companies who serve as Health Savings Account trustees or custodians. Mr. Gillihan is active in publishing and speaking on various health and welfare benefit plan related topics and serves as a faculty member and/or technical advisor for several health and welfare benefit plan focused organizations. He is a member of the Employer’s Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) Technical Advisory Council and the board of editors for the Benefits and Compensation Law Alert published by M.Lee Smith Publishers and was recently named a contributing author for the Flexible Benefits Answer Book published by Aspen Publishers. He received his B.A. from Western Kentucky University and his J.D. from Samford University.