Alex Abell
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex Abell is a seasoned technology investor and operator who blends startup funding with hands-on leadership to tackle big problems, from advancing nuclear energy and cancer research to building AI-driven, community-connected tech. As an Investor/Limited Partner at Market Square Ventures, he backs early-stage tech in the Southeast and Appalachian regions, including Authentrics.ai, VetVerifi, and Daily Crunch. He also leads the Web Services group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, guiding a multidisciplinary team to deliver secure, scalable web applications that support ORNL’s high-impact research. A former founder and CEO of Lunchpool and founder of Abell Multimedia, he bootstrapped teams and earned awards for bridging digital technology with social interaction. His background spans BI analytics, CRO, and marketing leadership at Ashley Furniture, Verizon, MECLABS, and IQPC, underpinned by a data-driven, experimental mindset. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with Six Sigma, Startup School, and full-stack development training, he combines entrepreneurial grit with technical depth to turn ambitious ideas into impact.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aabell03/sql-scratch-capstone-turn-in
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
Lunchpool/LunchPool_Public
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
You should never have to eat lunch alone.
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 2 days
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