Alex Glinka

Toronto, Canada Area Canada

Innovation · Strategy · Leadership · Technology · Speaker

Retail

Alex leads the strategic innovation division at Sears Canada and Initium Commerce Lab. Since joining in 2016, he built new discipline teams for prototype development, data science, and business model innovation. Prior to joining Sears Canada, Alex led creative technology and R&D teams at Isobar and FCB working with brands such as LEGO, Mondelez, and HBC. In his teens, he had his first taste of launching a startup. While not quite a unicorn, this experience shaped his career. In 2004 he was instrumental to the founding of Medworxx, a healthcare startup which exited in 2015. That year he cofounded LifeNode, a hackathon finalist spinoff. Today, Alex brings a relentless innovation mentality...