Alec Meeker

Brooklyn New Media, LLC / Bushwick Daily

• Applied AI. Designed, shipped, and operates the newsroom's production AI system on the Claude Agent SDK: multi-agent publishing that reads 90+ New York outlets daily, drafts articles, and clears every piece through a human editor, with a deterministic, fail-closed verification desk under which a fabricated or altered quote cannot pass as verified; the architecture is published as a technical white paper and the verification work as a technical report.
• 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 to the State Assembly; a preferred city partner and officially designated NYC media outlet.
• Publication. 7,000+ original articles; coverage cited by The New York Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Gothamist.
• Operations. Acquired Bushwick Daily in 2018 on self-conducted valuation analysis, 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.

New York State Assembly Primary Campaign

• 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).