Alex Wallace

Alex Wallace is a highly accomplished media executive with strong commercial and operational skills in consumer content and content marketing, audience and revenue growth, digital transformation, e-commerce, product development, subscriptions, crisis and change management, and leading large organizations. She most recently ran the media operations at Yahoo!, the third largest digital media property in the US, and across 13 markets globally, where she lead revenue and audience growth and conversion across 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, GoDigital Media Group, Google, Hint and The Wall Street Journal. She has deep international expertise, having been a Media Leader at The World Economic Forum for the past several years and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. An experienced board member, Alex is currently Chair of the Media and Civic Engagement Committee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, is Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Retro Report, and was on the Board of StudioNow and the Executive Committee of the Council of Urban Professionals as well as on a number of educational boards. She has been honored with 11 Emmy Awards, 2 Dupont Awards, a Gracie Award and a Peabody Award, as well as 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