Alec Karys

Chief Technology Officer, Startup Advisor, Mentor, Coach

Alec has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, technical team manager, consultant and as a startup advisor , mentor and coach.

Alec is founder and CEO at Genesis, which provides startup consulting services to socially responsible non-profits. Initial clients include http://www.bafound.org/ and http://altiplanoventures.org/. Previously,   Alec was CTO at mShopper and Senior Software Manager at Amazon,  responsible for all technical aspects of the Amazon Affiliates Program which had revenue of over $1 billion and over 1.2 million members. Alec was Co-Founder and CEO at Synapse Ventures Group, a virtual incubator which provided  consulting services to early stage technology companies. Also, Alec served as CEO at Cognate Technologies, an E-Learning company based on patent pending technology from MIT research. In addition, Alec has experience at various other technology and services companies where he held senior management roles such as at Authoriszor (NASDAQ: AUTH), InterQual (now a unit of McKesson (NYSE:MCK) ) and Data General Corporation (acquired by NYSE:EMC) . Alec has two issued patents in medical protocol authoring and delivery, and he has four patents in process in the area  of mobile commerce (m-commerce).

Alec received his MBA and Electrical Engineering degrees from Northeastern University and attended the Engineering Executive Program at Stanford University.