Alec Meeker

Bushwick Daily / Brooklyn New Media, LLC

• Applied AI. Designed, shipped, and operates the Provenance-Grounded Research Agent, a production multi-agent research system on the Claude Agent SDK, in daily production across news research, story extraction, and email triage; every agent-initiated action clears human approval; the architecture is published as a technical white paper.
• Commercial. 85% retention and 30%+ average expansion from a land-and-expand motion across 100+ deals owned full cycle, spanning NYC city agencies (Department of Education, Office of the Mayor, Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment) and institutions and brands (NYU Langone, Citi Bike, Airbnb).
• Government. A standing government portfolio across three mayoral administrations, from City Hall and MOME to City Council and state assembly offices; classified by MOME as a preferred city partner and official city news source.
• Policy. Partnered with the coalition of independent publishers that won the nation's first payroll tax credit for local news employment, a $90M refundable program in the FY2025 New York State budget.
• Publication. The coverage area's publication of record, with its audience at an all-time high across web and social; coverage cited by The New York Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Gothamist.
• Operations. Acquired Bushwick Daily in 2018 on a self-built DCF valuation, then a second brand in 2019; sole executive with full P&L ownership; built and led a cross-functional organization of journalists, editors, and commercial staff; a standing CUNY hiring pipeline; flagship sponsored events produced end to end.

Mahtab Khan for New York State Assembly, District 24

• Directed communications for a contested State Assembly primary: candidate messaging, press relations, and rapid response.

Erie Insurance / Erie Indemnity Company

• Credit. Covered a $200M investment-grade bond book (oil-and-gas, metals-and-mining) within the firm's $13B portfolio: relative value analysis for primary issuance pricing and allocation, credit underwriting models with sensitivity on EBITDA multiples, leverage, and covenant triggers, and buy/sell recommendations on 20+ credits.
• Private markets. $100M+ in fund commitments diligenced across middle-market private equity, venture capital, mezzanine, and real estate, with on-site GP evaluations and Burgiss benchmarking; presented a bottom-up Oil Field Services reallocation to the senior investment committee; authored the monthly inflation overview for the Asset Allocation Committee.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch / BNY Mellon

• Analyst rotations across wealth-management compliance and institutional performance analytics; built SQL-based reporting systems.

• LION Publishers Sustainability Audit Grant, 2024.
• LION Publishers Grant for Sustainable Journalism, 2023.
• Center for Community Media Creator in Residence, CUNY.
• CCM Election Reporting Fellowship.

University of Pittsburgh

• CFA Level I (passed).