Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson
Born	Alexandra Wilkis New York City
Alma mater	Harvard University (AB, MBA)
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Employer	Fitz

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the companies the Gilt Groupe, GlamSquad and Fitz.

Wilkis Wilson was born in New York City. She attended The Brearley School, Phillips Exeter Academy,Harvard College, where she graduated magna cum laude, and Harvard Business School.

Wilkis Wilson began her career working in investment banking at Merrill Lynch for three years, before returning to Harvard to earn an MBA. She then entered the Louis Vuitton management training program, which included working the sales floor. Subsequently, she worked for two years managing retail operations for Bulgari.

Wilkis Wilson co-founded the Gilt Groupe in 2007, a flashsale company that offers luxury goods for sale at significant discounts, but only for brief windows of time. In 2012, Wilkis Wilson and cofounder Alexis Maybank, a classmate from Harvard Business School, published a book on Gilt's founding, By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop. At one point the company was valued at a billion dollars, making it a "unicorn" (a venture capital slang term for a startup valued at a billion dollars), but sold to Saks Fifth Avenue parent company Hudson’s Bay Company for $250 million in 2016. Wilkis Wilson left the company in 2014.

In September 2014, she became co-founder and CEO of GlamSquad, a mobile styling company. Clients can use an app to book hair and makeup artists for house calls--"the Uber of beauty services." The company had $8 million in sales in the first year, and raised $24 million in funding, as of February 2017. It operates in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, DC.

In March 2017, Wilkis Wilson launched a startup called Fitz, a service that offers an in-person wardrobe consultation and then follow-up advice on shopping.

Wilkis Wilson is married and has two children.

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