Alexis Glick, (Featured Dinner Speaker)

CEO, Board Member, Investor, Veteran Wall Street and Media Executive, Television Personality

Alexis Glick is a distinguished c-suite executive, seasoned television personality, and accomplished business leader with a career that spans the realms of finance, media, sports, philanthropy, and energy.

Most recently, Glick served as CEO of Nature Energy North America, where she helped execute and lead the sale of the largest biomethane producer to Shell, marking the largest deal recorded in the industry. Glick, responsible for North American growth, successfully delivered two multibillion-dollar Joint Development Agreements (JDAs) with some of North America's most respected gas utilities and helped lead Nature Energy’s expansion globally. Her expertise in sustainability, ESG, and helping companies address their scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, achieve NetZero goals, and decarbonize their operations spans over a decade.

Prior to her role at Nature Energy, Glick served as the CEO of GENYOUth, where she established one of the largest philanthropic platforms supporting youth health and wellness. This public-private partnership between the NFL, all 32 NFL teams, Fortune 500 companies, America's dairy farmers, and three federal agencies, benefitted 40 million students daily in 75,000 U.S. public schools. Glick successfully raised over $200 million to combat hunger and address food security. GENYOUth prioritized school feeding providing hundreds of millions of meals to food insecure youth and increased access to physical activity, making flag football resources available to 17 million girls and boys, helping develop the fastest-growing sport in America for nearly a decade.

As a seasoned media executive, Glick played a pivotal role in the launch, growth, and leadership of one of the largest cable news networks in history, Fox Business. During her tenure, she conducted interviews with notable figures such as President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Tiger Woods, and Kobe Bryant, among other globally recognized leaders. Glick's media career also includes roles as an anchor and national correspondent on NBC's "Today Show" and CNBC's "Squawk Box." She began her career at Morgan Stanley, where she made history as the first and youngest woman to lead a bulge bracket business on the New York Stock Exchange.

Glick serves on the Board of Directors for Schreiber Foods, one of the world's largest food producers, as well as Gabelli Asset Management (GAMCO), the investment management firm founded by Mario Gabelli. Glick is a graduate of Columbia University and is the mom of four children: Logan, Kyle, Slate, and Jade.