Alexis Glick

Alexis Glick is the CEO of the Gen YOUth Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting childhood obesity. Gen YOUth’s flagship program, Fuel Up to Play 60, is a partnership between the NFL and the National Dairy Council. The in-school program empowers youth in more than 70,000 schools to improve nutrition and physical activity at their own school and for their own health.

Glick is a senior fellow for the Kauffman Foundation, one of the largest foundations in the country; the organization is dedicated to education and entrepreneurship. She is a strategic advisor to the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, an international forum of business CEOs and chairpersons focused exclusively on corporate philanthropy created by Paul Newman, John C. Whitehead, and Peter L. Malkin.

Prior to her appointment as CEO, Alexis Glick was vice president of Fox Business News, where she helped launch the largest cable news network in history and anchored Money for Breakfast and The Opening Bell.

In addition to her consulting and advisory work for media and financial companies, Glick has become a frequent guest and contributor to many network, cable news, and radio stations. She travels the country speaking about a range of topics including the fate of the U.S. economy, the political climate in Washington, D.C., and her personal journey from running a business on Wall Street, among an array of other topics.

Prior to joining FOX, Glick served as a correspondent for the Today Show and co-anchored the third hour of that program. Before her stint at NBC News, she was the senior trading correspondent for CNBC and reported from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, providing live daily updates for Squawk Box.

Earlier in her career, Glick was an executive at Morgan Stanley where she headed the New York Stock Exchange floor operations. A member of the New York Stock Exchange since 2002, she was the first and youngest woman to manage such an operation for a bulge bracket firm, and served as one of its top producers on the Listed Equity Trading Desk. She began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Equities Division.

Glick is a graduate of Columbia University where she serves as a member of the board of directors of the Columbia College Alumni Association. In 2006, she was awarded Columbia’s John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement.