Ashton Couture is the founder and chief executive of Centurion Financial, a Houston-headquartered capital and management firm operating from the entire 59th floor of Williams Tower, with offices globally. Within the past twenty-four months, Mr. Couture's active client base has raised in excess of $350M across multiple sectors under his direct stewardship, with institutional-tier facilities approved on transactions exceeding $2B in aggregate.
He brings twenty-eight years of operating depth across creative financing, banking infrastructure, and enterprise software. Prior to Centurion's 2022 launch, he founded and operated an AWS and Microsoft Cloud Partner agency that delivered systems to Microsoft, Credit Suisse, CH2M Hill (now Jacobs Engineering), Chase, and a portfolio of national brands. He has chaired a national credit and underwriting community continuously since 2007.
“Twenty-eight years building software, banking infrastructure, and the operating systems that run growing companies. I work with founders, operators and Fortune 500 clients on the system-level problems that help growth.”— Ashton Couture
Three-year capital program supporting acquisition of a Chevrolet/GMC dealership and operating expansion of a multi-rooftop automotive group. Stacked facility across more than ten institutional and non-traditional capital sources. Client revenue grew from $45M in 2024 to over $160M in 2025 with service operations nearly doubling under the engagement.
Centurion sourced and negotiated two parallel $70M lender approvals for the acquisition of an international media and IP company, supported by completed third-party business valuation and tax due diligence prepared by a top-tier independent firm. Engagement remains under strict client confidentiality.
Structured and secured institutional lender approval for a $2.0B mineral-rights acquisition in Texas. The engagement evidences Centurion's direct access to balance-sheet capital at institutional scale and credit-committee credibility on natural-resources transactions.
Asset-backed lines, growth equity, mezzanine, and distressed structuring — from $250K to institutional scale. Centurion sits at the cap table and selects the structure that survives the cycle.
Production agentic systems deployed into operating and finance functions on a 90-day cadence. SOC 2 from day one. The same internal operating system Centurion runs across its portfolio of six brands.
External CFO, controllership, FP&A, audit preparation, board and investor reporting, M&A advisory. Senior staff embedded as if they were the client's own.
Centurion is not a broker shop. Over the past four years our team has built a proprietary, end-to-end capital platform that converts a lead into funded capital without leaving the stack. Applications are ingested, soft-pulled, underwritten, and matched against a network of more than four hundred capital sources by an in-house agent fabric.
Institutional, private credit, mezz, growth equity, asset-backed and non-traditional — routed automatically.
Operating lines and SBA facilities through institutional M&A and acquisition financing in one workflow.
Soft-pull credit, bank-statement analysis, and document due diligence run automatically on application.
Each application is scored against active credit-box criteria across the entire lender network in seconds.
Term sheets, contracts, KYC, and signing run inside the platform. No broker drift. Full audit trail.
Direct relationships across senior secured, mezzanine, growth equity, and private credit desks. Multi-lender execution removes single points of failure on size or covenant.
In-house construction of credit-committee-ready packages: valuation coordination, financial modeling, DSCR and covenant engineering, lender Q&A management.
Deal sourcing, structuring, and execution — including acquisition binders, term-sheet negotiation, and post-close integration support.
Fractional executive finance leadership: FP&A, treasury, audit preparation, board reporting, and investor relations support — deployed senior.
Portfolio oversight across five wholly-owned Centurion sub-companies and an active advisory book exceeding 250 active client engagements.
Covenant monitoring, regulatory readiness, and SOC-aligned controls embedded into every operating engagement from day one.
Proprietary AI operating system deployed across six in-house brands and available to clients on a 90-day install. SOC 2 from inception.
Core banking and treasury systems built and maintained over a 28-year practice, including merchant, factoring, and cash-management integration for client operating entities.
AWS and Microsoft Cloud Partner build practice with delivered systems for Microsoft, Credit Suisse, CH2M Hill, Chase, and a national-brand portfolio.
“Dealerships are one of the most challenging industries to secure financing in, and Centurion Financial has provided us with capital we did not know we could access — raising in excess of eighty million dollars across our automotive group in traditional and non-traditional facilities. Beyond the capital, Ashton has guided the direction of the company. We have grown from grossing forty-five million in 2024 to over one-hundred-sixty million in 2025, and our service operation has nearly doubled — I would recommend Centurion Financial to any business needing financial resources and management to grow.”
Automotive and dealership groups · Energy and mineral rights · Digital infrastructure and data centers · Media and IP acquisition · Commercial and multi-family real estate · Consumer brands and distribution · Financial services. Engagements taken at principal level; references and additional case material made available on direct request.