Alex Marquez
Global Head of Experian Ventures at Experian Ventures
Speaker

Profile

Alex is veteran investor with an investing career and track record spanning 25 years, generating consistent top decile returns.

Alex founded Experian Ventures in 2017 and currently serves as SVP & Global Managing Director for the group. As a leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to our clients around the world, we invest in data/analytics, information security, healthcare, automotive, towards enabling the global credit economy. The fund has invested across the globe in such companies as Array, Audigent (acq by Experian), AxiaMed (acq by Bank of America), BankBazaar, Bonify (acq by SCHUFA), Cazana (acq by Cazoo), CERC, CreditProtect, Finicity (acq by Mastercard), Grab (Nasdaq: GRAB), Infosum (acq by WPP), Keyless (acq by Ping Identity), Nav, Skyfire, Recargapay, Sardine, TrueData (acq by ID5), Resistant, Posh, and TrueML.

Previously, Alex was Managing Director with USAA's Corporate Development Group and a member of USAA's Executive Management team and built USAA Ventures into one of the most active FinTech CVC after his first year. Alex created USAA's Blockchain Working Group and investment thesis in distributed ledger technology and was responsible for the groups investments in Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Saffron (acq by Intel), Automatic Labs (acq by SiriusXM), and ExpectLabs (acq by Cisco), while establishing USAA's venture brand in Silicon Valley.

Alex was an Investment Director with Intel Capital, the world’s largest corporate venture group having invested over $14B globally. During his tenure with Intel Capital, Alex managed or co-managed investments in Atom Entertainment (acquired by Viacom), BlackArrow (acquired by Cross Mediaworks), ChannelM (acquired by PlayNetwork), Gametrust (acquired by Real Networks), Gaikai (acquired by Sony), Envivio (Nasdaq: ENVI), Kabam (acquired by Netmarble), K2 Network (acquired by RHI), Trymedia (acquired by Macrovision), The Generations Network (Nasdaq: ACOM), SixApart (acquired by SayMedia), and Synacor (Nasdaq: SYNC).

Alex was co-founder and CEO of AppScotch, which brought transparency to paid mobile advertising. AppScotch was acquired by AppAnnie.

Alex holds an MBA from Purdue University, and BSEE in Semi-Conductor Physics from UNLV.