Alex Edelstein (born January 17, 1969) is a high-tech manager and reality television participant.
Alex Edelstein is currently a Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce. Previously he was the founder and Head of Product Development of The Fr8 Company, [1] a web service that integrates SaaS services such as Slack, Salesforce, and DocuSign. Previously, he created Servio (formerly CloudCrowd) a company in the crowdsourcing space that he co-founded with Jordan Ritter in 2009. Before CloudCrowd, he was a real estate developer and the head of Gemstone Development, which was responsible for the ManhattanWest [2] and Manhattan condominiums. [3] He previously held engineering and management roles at Cloudmark and Inktomi. He product managed the early versions of Netscape Navigator. [4] Additionally, he was on the original design team for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook.
On April 2, 2009, he was featured on the reality TV show The Millionaire Matchmaker. [5]
He has provided television analysis on both real estate [6] and high-tech topics. [7] He was on the Board of Directors of Kiva.org, a non-profit company that facilities micro-lending in developing countries. [8]
He graduated from Harvard College. [9]
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