Alex is a community builder, advocate, and social sector strategist at Social Ventures Australia (SVA), Australia's leading not-for-profit advisor. Before SVA, he spent the past four years at L.E.K. Consulting advising clients on strategy, transaction, and organisational performance issues across the education, healthcare, energy, media, and private equity.
His passions lie at the intersection of participatory governance, social inclusion, and community power. He is driven by a belief that those closest to the challenges should have agency in shaping the solutions. This has led him to design initiatives that elevate underrepresented voices, build infrastructure for leadership pathways, and embed equity in institutions. He founded Careers in Colour (CiC), Australia's first not-for-profit dedicated to supporting emerging leaders of colour in their pathways to senior leadership. CiC has engaged over 1,000 professionals and supported employees to advocate for some of Australia's first cultural diversity targets in leading public sector agencies. He previously led Australia's largest LGBTQ+ professional mentoring program and co-founded South West Sydney’s first queer safe space.
For these contributions, he was named Winner of the Professional Services Category in the Asian-Australian Leadership Awards (formerly 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians) and recognised as a 30 Under 30 Outstanding LGBTQIA+ Leader by BCG and Out for Australia.
At L.E.K., Alex has advised over 25 clients across media, healthcare, education, energy, and private equity on a range of strategic challenges and opportunities. He co-developed the inaugural First Nations Strategy for Australia's national multicultural broadcaster, provided vaccine launch strategy and critical path support, developed a commercial partnerships strategy for Australia's oldest university, and led global commuter emissions analysis for L.E.K.’s Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) submission, leading to L.E.K. becoming the first major consultancy to have its long-term carbon reduction targets to be validated by SBTi. He also founded L.E.K.’s first APAC Employee Resource Groups for LGBTQ+ and culturally diverse employees, which now represent 20% of the firm's workforce in the region.
He also serves on the Youth Advisory Boards of both the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue and the U.S. Consulate General in Sydney.