Alex Cortez is a manager in the Boston office and has been with the firm since 2004.  He has served clients in a range of nonprofit domains, including high school education, youth/after-school services, foundation grant making, workforce development, the environment and aging.  Much of his work has involved helping clients develop growth and replication strategies (regional and national), and develop new programmatic strategies to pilot and test.  He has authored two case studies on a community organization's efforts to evolve from a multi-service to youth-focused strategy and develop a performance management system to drive their competitiveness.  He is also the co-lead on Bridgespan's development of knowledge and expertise on nonprofit mergers and collaborations, including "Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions: More Than a Tool for Tough Times," published in February, 2009.

Prior to joining Bridgespan, Alex worked at Silver Oak Solutions, a Boston-based consulting firm serving clients in state government, telecommunications, private equity and life sciences in the United States and Belgium.  Alex began his career in strategy consulting in 1995, working for the Mitchell Madison Group in New York, Boston and London.

Alex served six years on the board of Discovering Justice, a South Boston-based nonprofit focused on civic engagement and education of youth.  Alex also served for three years on the board of Community Action Partners, which organizes groups of Harvard Business School alumni in the Boston area to serve as pro-bono consulting teams to local nonprofits.

Alex graduated with a BA in Political Science from Columbia University, where he wrote his thesis on policies to prevent nuclear proliferation. He also holds an MPA from Harvard's JFK School of Government and an MBA from Harvard Business School.