Alex Tepper

Global Head of Ventures and Sustainable Futures for North America @ frog design and Capgemini Invent

2022 - Current

Running venture, business building, startup enablement and new revenue generation for frog (top-tier design firm) and Capgemini Invent ($18B+ multi-national). Primarily helping drive growth and impact in the climate tech, energy transition, and sustainable products and services space across a variety of industries.

Co-Founder

2022

InTandem DAO is a diverse, member-only community of experts, mobilizing to support founders from underrepresented groups to scale their businesses. Members include; founders, entrepreneurs, marketing experts, venture investors and supporters. Founders receive support from members through personalized guidance and learning opportunities including; mentoring, AMAs, virtual workshops, playbooks, POVs and more.

Managing Director

2021 - 2022

Emerald Technology Ventures is a climate-tech venture capital investor with roughly $1B asset under management. Focused on the sustainable packaging, decarbonization (measurement and reduction), and energy transition domains.

Techstars Mentor for both Energy and Web3 Accelerators

2022 - 2022

Board Advisor

2021 - 2022

Unlocking the value of early stage technology, automatically matching technology/IP with specific market research data

Senior Vice President - Global Industry Solutions and Startup Engagement Services Lead

2019 - 2021

Leading the Techstars Industry groups (Sustainability, Fintech, Aerospace, Energy), to harness the power of the network of VCs, entrepreneurs, corporates, and experts to drive growth and progress for corporates and entrepreneurs. Running Startup Engagement Solutions, including: industry-centric fund development, startup scouting, landscape analysis/research, pilot design and execution, and our venture studio NewCo builds. #givefirst

Senior Managing Director

2019 - 2019

Running Human Enterprise — designing and building companies that harness the massive opportunity of combining entrepreneurial agility with corporate innovation

Founder and Managing Director, Corporate Development

2016 - 2019

Avitas Systems is an industrial AI company that provides asset inspection and risk-based analytics as a service to oil and gas and power customers. Avitas paired AI and asset-specific sensor modalities (aerial, ground, and subsea) to autonomously gather data, use machine-learning algorithms, and analyze fused data to help develop risk-based inspection and maintenance optimization plans. Avitas raised $23M in venture funding and was subsequently acquired by Baker Hughes in January 2019.

Managing Director - GE Ventures

2014 - 2019

Managing Director – New Business Creation (July 2016 - July 2017) Goal of GEV New Business Creation Team (“NBC”) is to: 1) Enter new markets; 2) Develop businesses in areas strategic to GE; and 3) Maximize GE assets. The ultimate goal of the New Business Creation group is to drive growth through creating disruptive business models and solutions for existing and emerging markets. Managing Director Venture Investments (July 2014 – July 2016) Focusing on growth strategy and venture capital investing in various areas, including: Robotics, augmented reality, and advanced manufacturing. Helping drive adoption of disruptive tech and business models through investments, pilots, incubations, and lean startup methods.

Global Director of Innovation

2012 - 2014

Leading a team focused on market development and commercialization of breakthrough products and business models across the GE businesses. Collaborating closely internally with the GE Global Research Center, the business verticals, and externally with entrepreneurs and thought leaders to bring new methods (e.g., lean startup methodology and open innovation) to bear in helping dramatically speed time to market and design innovative new products. Overseeing the Advanced Manufacturing commercial strategy which runs from new product design methods, high-end 3D printing, and our involvement with makers and hardware hackers. Co-founded the GE Open Innovation (crowd-sourcing) Center of Excellence. Dedicated to bringing products to market that make the world a better place.

Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, Office of the President, Consumer Services

2011 - 2012

Led the vision and strategy effort for the President. Working with senior leadership to determine AMEX’s roadmap for growth for the next 3-5 years. This included co-leading and participating in workstreams to identify the new consumer design target, determine the product line strategy, develop the digital product roadmap, and evolve our loyalty program (Membership Rewards). Created the consumer segmentation and CRM strategy for the President, to be used to link all efforts from branding, to product design, and marketing. Helped re-align both the budget and the org structure to help make the strategy successful.

Vice President of New Product Development, Consumer Services

2008 - 2011

Responsible for portfolio strategy and all product actions across AMEX’s three portfolios: Charge, Lending, and Co-Brand/Partner cards. Launched 4 new cards, expected to yield 2.5 million new customers and generate over $4 billion in revenue. Refreshed value propositions of 5 cards. Launched AMEX’s first 2 mobile apps and several new digital capabilities. Core member of the social media and PR strategy team for Zync product launch (focused on younger demographic).

Director of Portfolio Strategy, Consumer Cards

2007 - 2008

Created the detailed portfolio strategy for all Consumer Card products, linking consumer needs, competitive landscape, shareholder needs (i.e., financials), and internal capabilities. Identified “white space opportunities” that would lay the foundation for future growth. One such recommendation was one of 5 chosen to be funded by the Chairman’s Innovation Fund.

Director of Marketing - New Card Acquisition, Charge Card Portfolio

2005 - 2007

Managed a $130 million marketing division responsible for driving cross-channel card acquisition focused on the Charge cards and the affluent consumer. Channels included internet, direct mail, and telemarketing. Drove over 1 million new customer acquisitions and over $1.6 billion in spend in one year, contributing to the highest acquisition volume year in AMEX recent history. Developed break-through marketing campaigns that increased our penetration in the affluent space by 65% in a year and a half.