Alicia Boler Davis
American engineer and businesswoman
Alicia Boler Davis is an American engineer and businesswoman. Boler Davis began her career at General Motors, rising to the rank of executive vice president of global manufacturing in 2016. In 2019, she joined Amazon as senior vice president of global customer fulfillment. During her time at Amazon, she led much of the company's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and became the first Black executive to join its senior leadership (known internally as the S-team).
In late June 2022, Davis announced she would become the new CEO of Alto Pharmacy, a digital pharmacy startup with about $1 billion in revenue and 1,200 employees, starting in September 2022.
Early life and education
Boler Davis spent her childhood fixing broken items in her home, where she grew up with her mother Denise and 3 siblings. She attended a high school program at the General Motors Institute and she decided she wanted to work there. She completed her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at Northwestern University. She was the first generation of her family to attend college, following her sister Kimberly Boler who studied at Harvard University and became an attorney. She followed this with a master's degree in engineering science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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