A small senior bench.
Not a pyramid. Every engagement is run by someone who has built the thing before — at scale, with a number attached.
Alex Blackstock
Alex Blackstock built AB Venture Labs around a narrow question: where does AI actually move the P&L, and where is it theater? Twenty years of shipping products at scale have made him good at telling the difference — and unsentimental about the answer.
He most recently served as Chief Product Officer of CVS Healthcare Delivery, owning digital product across CVS's value-based care businesses — Signify Health, Oak Street Health, and MinuteClinic — spanning in-home evaluations, primary care, and retail clinics, serving millions of patients. The bulk of that work sat with Signify, where the product is a clinician in someone's living room and the technology has to earn its place in that room. Before CVS, Alex led product for machine learning and geospatial systems at Amazon, including the routing intelligence behind last-mile delivery worldwide. He started at McKinsey, and for over a decade advised the founding team behind Bitmoji through its acquisition by Snap.
His approach starts with the human on the other end of the product — the patient at the kitchen table, the clinician charting at 9pm, the driver on the route. Technology strategy that begins anywhere else tends to produce systems people work around rather than work with. So Alex spends his time close to the front line: on ride-alongs, in clinics, in the code. He builds software himself, nights and weekends, because he believes an operator who only directs the work eventually stops understanding it — and starts building in isolation.
That combination — executive judgment paired with hands-on fluency — is what he brings to sponsors and management teams. A partner who can sit in a board conversation about capital allocation in the morning and get specific with a CTO about implementation in the afternoon.
Today he advises private equity investors and their portfolio companies on turning AI capability into verified operating results. He holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and splits his time between Seattle and New York.
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