At 14 he received his first job offer as a personal chef through a high school vocational program and after 6 years of working in a variety of restaurants decided to attend the Culinary Institute of America. Alex’s experience covers many areas in the culinary/foodservice which include consulting in menu development, R&D, start up operations, systems and controls, training, food manufacturing, business planning, concept development, and healthcare.

Alex Co-founded the BCAGlobal and created the Global program “Mindful Eating for the Beloved Community” bringing food and Social Impact while focusing on training Health Ambassadors to produce healthy and whole communities.

Alex has enjoyed appearances on Good Morning America, CBS Early Morning Show, and the Food Network. He was a Distinguished Visited Chef (DVC) for Sullivan University, visiting professor at the School of Hotel and Tourism-Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Business Leader of Year from the Marcella Brown Foundation, received the distinguished New York Institute of Technology Global Leadership Award and served on the American Culinary Federation Accreditation Commission. Alex was selected as a National Kellogg Fellow Leader in the Racial, Equity and Healing (REH) cohort.

In 2020 Alex was awarded the Castanea Fellowship in Food Systems Leadership. In 2021 he was selected as an International cohort member of the UN Food Summit and Open IDEO -Rockefeller Foundation Game Changer in Food Systems. In 2023 appointed as Senior Fellow at ALF(Alliance of Leadership Fellows).
Alex continues to use his experience as a foundation for further growth and development in the culinary industry and continues the important social change work using food as a nexus and mindful eating as a platform to improve lives with resiliency in communities worldwide.