Alex Alexander, Xoots founder, experienced CPTO/CTO, and all round nice guy

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Alex is an internationally experienced CTO/CPTO leading diverse global technology teams for major companies. He has led seven technology transformations, achieving top quartile performance and accelerating profitable growth.
Starting in software development, Alex rose to head of Retail Banking technology at a leading UK internet startup bank. He later co-founded an eCommerce consultancy and led iconic CTO interim roles for 8 years.
He transformed Sainsbury’s online platform as eCommerce IT Director, and later led the digital transformation at Barclays Retail Bank in London as Multichannel IT Director.
In 2012, Alex joined Walmart Global eCommerce technology in California as the multichannel technology director. He led the world’s 2nd largest grocery home shopping platform, the UK's fastest-growing fashion platform, and pioneered groundbreaking ‘click-and-collect’ initiatives. It was here that our paths first crossed.
Since then he's also had senior roles at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP in Italy and Emirates Group - where he was global CIO and global CTO respectively, overseeing the strategy and transformation of a 2,500-strong team to modernise the technology landscape, enabling business growth and innovation.
Alex is now on a mission to unlock the potential of product & tech teams by harnessing the power of data and AI.
"We’re infusing data and AI to assess and improve teams’ productivity index, enabling efficient and predictable delivery outcomes, helping our clients achieve their digital transformation goals faster. "
Alex feels in some ways, over the last decade or so, he's been trying to solve the same challenges, but in different roles with different companies. And now he wants to have the opportunity to figure out how to solve this for every company, in every industry, so that they can measure the productivity of the tech teams, but can also improve it.
The second part of this is that he wants to really leverage the same platform, and his experience to create a new kind of tech community, bionic teams where productivity levels are off the charts. And he thinks technologies such as generative AI and blockchain are key to solving this.

Alex lends his expertise to startups, guiding them in product development best practices and the innovation applications of cutting-edge generative AI.
Alex holds a Statistics degree from University College London and an MBA.
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