Member Since January 2024
Skills
Product Management
Sales/Marketing and Strategic Partnerships
Analytics
About
Alex Kinnier is a seasoned technologist, entrepreneur, and investor, currently serving as the co-founder and CEO of Upside, the largest food and fuel network in the United States. Since 2016, Upside has generated $1.5 billion in incremental profit for retailers and boosted user purchasing power by nearly $650 million. Today, more than $5 billion flows through the platform annually to over 100,000 grocery, fuel, convenience store, restaurant, and hardware retailers. Prior to Upside, Alex served on Opower’s executive team (acquired by Oracle) as the Senior VP of Product & Engineering. There he led the company’s product development teams, including engineering, product management, user experience, services, and analytics.As an investor, Alex has served as a Partner at Khosla Ventures, NEA, and now at Builders VC. Some of his investments include Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto) and Skybox (acquired by Google).As a product manager, Alex began his career making big impacts at Google, and before that at Procter & Gamble. At Google, Alex built the agency display advertising team, created Google’s next generation third party serving and targeting system, and also led Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick. At Procter & Gamble, Alex worked in brand management and product development roles, leading the development and launch of three never-before-seen products.Alex holds an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering with honors from Lehigh University.
