General of Growth and The Deal-Maker
Alex is a visionary high-tech leader with a proven track record of driving complex, high-impact strategies across global markets at leading technology companies. During his 16-year tenure at Amazon and former VP of WW Corporate Development, he led strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions in the US, Europe, India, and the Middle East with a focus on Worldwide Operations and Logistics. Among his key accomplishments, he orchestrated and led Amazon’s acquisition of Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), the warehouse robotic system that revolutionized Amazon’s global delivery network and delivered billions of dollars in operational savings—and many other acquisitions. Alex also built and led a team that structured and negotiated key strategic partnerships with private and publicly traded companies to support multibillion-dollar operations and logistics initiatives including the creation of Amazon Air. To accelerate innovation in industrial automation and robotics, he launched the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, a $1Bn corporate venture fund. After Amazon, Alex served as Chief Corporate Development Officer at NuBank and as the President of Wyze Labs Inc. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan New York specializing in M&A and private equity and held leadership positions in operations management at Kraft Foods. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.
