Rachel Paletsky Ash is a wellness entrepreneur and health advocate. She worked alongside her late husband, world-renowned Integrative physician Richard N. Ash, M.D., to grow the Ash Center for Comprehensive Medicine in New York City and their Pure Essentials nutraceutical line. Rachel has hosted radio shows and podcasts for iHeartmedia.  In addition to founding wellness centers in NYC, Connecticut and the Hamptons.  She has been featured in press including New York Magazine, HAMPTONS, GOTHAM, Vogue, New York Observer and DuJour Magazine.  

In addition to her role as CEO at Pure Essentials, Rachel is Chairman of the Board for Documenting Hope, an organization with multiple IRB-approved studies, focused on solving chronic illness in children through root cause approaches, and serves on the advisory board for MadeSafe.org.  In 2024 Rachel was chosen out of 75 women globally, to participate in the UBS Female Founder Program, highlighting female entrepreneurs to watch for.