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Glick in 2008
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Born |
Alexis Cahill Donnelly August 7, 1972 New York, New York |
Occupation | Former Anchor, FBN |
Title | Former Business News Anchor |
Spouse(s) | Oren Glick |
Alexis Glick (born Alexis Cahill Donnelly; August 7, 1972) is an American television personality who was an anchor of Money for Breakfast and The Opening Bell on Fox Business Network, as well as the Vice President of Business News. She left the channel in December 2009. Glick has since founded the GENYOUth Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to nurturing child health and wellness through improved nutrition and physical activity.
Glick grew up in the private residential development of Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan. 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.
Glick graduated from the Dalton School on the Upper East Side and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University.
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 , making her the first and youngest woman to manage such an operation for a bulge bracket firm.
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.