Alex & Trippy, with Jade (left), and Kira (right).
Alex is currently helping his ukulele “Trippy” be the first musical instrument in history to play music on every country on Earth. Click here to read more about Trippy the Traveling Ukulele.
The short bio: Alex is a former Marketing Executive at a Fortune 100 company and has almost 20 years of experience creating and executing fun viral projects that have been featured in places like The New York Times, Forbes, and TED.com.
The longer bio:
Previously, Alex made animated educational videos about social issues for act.tv, where he was a Sr. Producer and Marketing Strategist. His work has been featured on the New York Times, TED.com, BuzzFeed, and many other places.
Alex’s animated videos have gotten over 250 million views and were consistently shared by political figures like US Senator Bernie Sanders, Robert Reich, organizations like NowThis, Moveon.org, and celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Lebron James, and Snoop Dogg.
Formerly, Alex was Marketing Executive at Cisco, and before that he was the Editor in Chief at iPhone Life magazine. As a digital nomad for 10+ years, Alex visited 30+ countries before starting the project with Trippy the Traveling Ukulele.
Alex was born in the United States, and his family is from Venezuela, where he spent most of his childhood. You can watch Alex’s TEDx talk about travel and empathy here, and see a full summary of Alex’s previous projects here.
If you’d like to connect with Alex in a more professional context, you can connect with him via LinkedIn here, or via email at alex@alexcequea.com.