Alex is a cross-border serial entrepreneur, an angel investor and an educator with rich and ground level experience in the North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa. Alex also held senior management, strategy consulting and R&D positions at various leading global corporations. Alex received PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech and MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Alex hopes to leverage his global and entrepreneurial experience and support the Head of School and the leadership team to make SAS one of the most innovative schools in the world.