Alex rejoined Sapphire in 2022 after receiving her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She focuses primarily on AI & enterprise infrastructure software and has worked closely on the firm’s investments in Grafana, Huntress, Defense Unicorns, and Cohesity and is a Board Observer for CircleCI, Defense Unicorns, ThoughtSpot, and Yugabyte. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and played on the varsity women’s tennis team as an undergrad at Harvard, where she was a pre-med, Psychology major with minors in Computer Science and Neurobiology.

Alex was recognized as a Rising Star in Venture Capital by Business Insider in 2024 and by NVCA in 2023, which recognize the next generation of venture capital professionals who are rising through the ranks and are widely considered by their peers and others as emerging leaders of the venture capital industry. Prior to business school, Alex spent 3 years on the growth team at Sapphire, where she actively worked on investments in Monday.com, Livongo, Contentful, Highspot, and Sword Health. While at Stanford, Alex made a number of investments in early stage software companies, co-led the Stanford MBA Fund, and earned a Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation in addition to her MBA. She also spent time during business school working across the product, go-to-market and business operations teams in a strategy role at Productiv, a B2B SaaS management platform. Prior to grad school, she was part of the technology investment banking group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco, where she worked on a number of high-profile IPO & M&A transactions.

Alex spent many years as a Board Advisor for a non-profit called Women in Sports Tech, which provides funding and growth opportunities to young women pursuing careers in sports and technology. She is passionate about empowering under-represented individuals across the venture and technology landscapes, and is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Alex possesses a near inhuman stamina for binge-watching docuseries, has a minor addiction to playing strangers in online chess (usually losing badly), and a constant desire for macaroni & cheese. She holds the Strava record for the slowest time ever required to complete a well-known bike loop near Stanford’s campus.