Alexis Glick (born Alexis Cahill Donnelly; August 7, 1972) is an American former television personality, who was an anchor of Money for Breakfast and The Opening Bell on Fox Business, as well as the Vice President of Business News. She left the channel in December 2009.
Early life and education
Glick grew up in the private residential development of Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan.[1] Her father, Robert E. Donnelly, is an entertainment lawyer in Manhattan. Her mother, Ellen Cahill Donnelly, was a secretary for Lehman Brothers and is the office manager in Brooklyn for the Forest City Ratner Corporation, a New York real estate developer. Glick's parents live in Dobbs Ferry, New York.[2]
Glick began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Equities Division. She was also an executive at Morgan Stanley where she was in charge of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange, making her the first and youngest woman to manage such an operation for a bulge bracket firm.[4]
Glick traded consumer and entertainment stocks, utility and real estate investment trusts and most notably, the financials including banks, credit card stocks, government agencies and insurance stocks at Morgan Stanley. She was also one of the top producers on the company's Listed Equity Trading Desk from 1998 through 2001.[citation needed]
NBC News/MSNBC/CNBC
Glick had worked as a temporary host for the third hour of NBC's Today in 2006. She was also a substitute anchor on Early Today in 2005 and an occasional anchor on MSNBC Live. Previously, Glick was a senior business correspondent for CNBC.
On December 23, 2009, Glick announced that she was leaving the Fox Business.[5][6]
Post-Fox
Glick made appearances as a guest commentator on CNN and ABC News.[citation needed]She also guest-hosted on WABC and Sirius XM radio from New York.[7][8]
Glick served as CEO of the GENYOUth Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to nurturing child health and wellness through improved nutrition and physical activity, until January 2022 when she stepped down.[9]
Personal life
She is married to Oren Glick, who is Jewish and the founder and president of Shoot Digital, a New York City photography company.[10][11][12] They have four children.[1][13][14][15]
↑"Alexis Donnelly And Oren Glick"(Archives). The New York Times. 10 October 1999. Alexis Cahill Donnelly, the daughter of Ellen Cahill Donnelly of New York and Robert E. Donnelly of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., was married...
↑kevin (23 December 2009). "Alexis Glick Leaving Fox Business". TVNewser.com. Mediabistro. Retrieved 14 March 2014. "I want you guys to know that today will be my last day here at the Fox Business Network,"
