Contributor

Alexis Glick

Financial Media Personality and Chief Executive Officer, GENYOUth

Alexis Glick, a veteran media personality and former Wall Street executive, helped launch the Fox Business Network, the largest cable news launch in history, where she served as Vice President of Business News and anchored “Money for Breakfast” and “The Opening Bell” before taking on the role of CEO at GENYOUth. Glick frequently appears on CNN where she provides her perspective on issues impacting global business, corporate leadership and Wall Street. Glick also has a contributor column on The Huffington Post and serves as guest writer periodically on Fortune Insiders. In addition to her work in media and finance, Glick has been a strategic advisor for a wide range of fortune 500 companies and has appeared as a frequent contributor and guest for ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “AC360,” “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” and “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.” She travels across the country speaking about a range of topics including child health & wellness, 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 to covering Hurricanes, Super Bowls, Presidential elections and the largest financial crisis of our lifetime. Glick was a Senior Fellow for the Kauffman Foundation, one of the largest in the country dedicated to education and entrepreneurship and board member of Cumulus, the second largest radio company in the world. Now as a philanthropic leader she has served as a strategic advisor to the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, an international forum of business CEOs and chairpersons focused exclusively on corporate philanthropy. The organization was created by Paul Newman, John C. Whitehead and Peter L. Malkin. Today she sits on the board of the UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation. Throughout her career, Glick has interviewed some of the world’s most recognized leaders and newsmakers across politics, business and sports, including President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Muhtar Kent, Jamie Dimon, Ken Chenault, Andrea Jung, Meg Whitman, Sir Richard Branson, Bob Iger, Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Jerry Bruckheimer, Justin Timberlake, Oscar De La Hoya, Russell Simmons and Mike Krzyzewski. Prior to joining Fox News, Glick was a correspondent for NBC News’s “Today Show,” where she co-anchored the third hour of the program with Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Al Roker and Ann Curry. Before joining “Today,” she was the senior trading correspondent for CNBC and reported from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for CNBC’s flagship morning program “Squawk Box.” Earlier in her career, Glick was an executive at Morgan Stanley where she headed floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange. 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 and served 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. She’s been featured in Metropolitan Home, W, Fortune, New York Magazine, Glamour, Men’s Health, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times among others. She is the proud mother of four young children and serves on the boards of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and the United Healthcare Children’s Foundation.