Alex Schultz

As a Trustee, I bring experience of communicating at scale with the best modern technology to advance Wessex Archaeology’s mission, by not just gathering information about the past but disseminating it and making it accessible. I also share my technical skills and knowledge from the IT industry to benefit the organisation. 

As Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Analytics at Meta, I help the company market itself to new users and explain itself to all our key stakeholders around the world. I also built and run Meta’s data science and data engineering teams, who process our large data sets to help set strategy and drive operational rigour.

I have been pivotal in enabling Meta to connect 2 billion+ people and I am very proud of the role social media plays in helping people to connect. 

At Magdalene College Cambridge, I studied natural sciences specialising in experimental and theoretical physics. I stayed to get my MSc and specialised in medical imaging with many parallels to Geophysics. I have passionately supported access to education through my college ever since by funding bursaries, teaching officers and outreach and access posts. Most recently, I was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College and a Member of the Guild of Benefactors at the University of Cambridge.

I have also been a successful investor with early stakes in AirBnb, Scale.ai and Expanse as well as a Non-Executive Director of the amazing Lindblad Expeditions. In all these roles, I have helped the organisations to develop their growth and marketing strategies.