Alex Wallace is currently an advisor, speaker, and board member. She is an Executive in Residence at Progress Partners, an investment bank, and at IESE, the top business school in Spain.

She ran the media operations at Yahoo!, the third largest digital media property in the US, and across 13 markets globally, where she lead revenue, audience growth and conversion for Yahoo News, Sports, Entertainment, Finance and Life as well as TechCrunch, Autoblog, Engadget, In the Know, MAKERS, Tumblr and Huffpost. Previously she was Senior Vice President of NBC News and Executive in Charge of Today and Meet the Press and the Executive Producer of Nightly News. She has consulted for a range of companies including Redbird IMI, Google, Hint and The Wall Street Journal.

She is a Council on Foreign Relations member and was a Media Leader at The World Economic Forum for many years. Alex is currently Co-chair of the Educational Outreach and Civic Engagement Committee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, is Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of Retro Report, and is on the Advisory Council for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She has been honored with 11 Emmy Awards, 2 Dupont Awards, a Gracie Award and a Peabody Award, and a John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement from the Columbia College Alumni Association, for which she is a member of the Board of Directors.

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