Alexa joined Lightspeed to help build the firm’s Growth Private Equity team, which targets majority investments in software and tech-enabled services platforms. She is particularly drawn to healthcare technology and AI-enabled services, businesses where technology amplifies what people can do.

“I wanted to be part of building something new at the forefront of AI,” Alexa says. “I am excited to help shape this strategy from the ground up.”

Previously, Alexa was an investor on the Business and Financial Services team at Advent International, where she worked closely with portfolio company leadership and saw firsthand how engaged, high-ownership management teams can change business trajectories.

Her father, an entrepreneur, shaped that belief early. His business was making mousepads, until everyone got laptops. But he wasn’t constrained by what his business had always been. He got creative, saw opportunity, and made bigger mousepads: yoga mats. “His business today is a reflection of his actions,” Alexa says. “That’s what I come back to. Businesses don’t build themselves. It’s people that make things happen.”

How she shows up alongside those people owes something to long talks with her grandfather at the kitchen table. “He’d ask me about the world and then poke holes in every answer,” she recalls, chuckling while warning her to “slow down.” He taught her that the best thinking comes from staying open, asking one more question, and not being too attached to your first answer. She brings that same spirit to working with management teams.

“Curiosity paired with a bias toward action. That’s what I’m drawn to, and that’s how I try to show up as a partner,” she says.

When she’s not working alongside management teams, Alexa can be found on the tennis court, the golf course, or skiing whenever she can. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College.