Bob Alexander, President

Bob Alexander was born in Oklahoma and attended 13 public schools before entering the five-year Electrical Engineering program at Cornell University in 1960. After graduating with his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Cornell University, Bob entered the Peace Corps. Bob then entered the Harvard Business School in the fall of 1968. He was a 01Cfirst year Baker Scholar01D and graduated with High Distinction. On graduating from the Harvard Business School, Bob joined McKinsey & Company, Inc., in their public sector practice based in New York City. His clients included the Lindsay administration of New York City and a number of state and local governments. He also helped originate the entertainment practice at McKinsey, by managing the firm019s work with Columbia Pictures during the reconstruction of that brand name led by Alan Hirschfield. Bob left McKinsey and founded Alexander & Associates, Inc. in 1978 as a vehicle through which to expand his work in the entertainment industry. Working with Doug Smith, Bob co-authored 01CFumbling The Future: How Xerox Invented and Then Ignored the Personal Computer01D published by William Morrow in 1988. With partners from the music industry, Bob co-founded StreetWise Records as an independent urban dance music label in the early 80019s. Since 1987, Alexander & Associates has provided market analysis and forecasting services to the home entertainment divisions of a number of Hollywood studios. Bob is a director of the AllianceBernstein International Technology Fund and the AllianceBernstein International Health Care Fund, both based in Luxembourg. He and his family live in New York City.