Alex Wilcox is an American airline executive and businessman. He co-founded JetSuiteX, since renamed JSX, and is JSX's CEO. Wilcox was a founding executive of

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as well as president and COO of

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until 2006. Wilcox started his career in customer service at Virgin Atlantic Airways, where he helped

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, who headed US

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Early life and education

Wilcox was born in

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to an American father and a Swiss mother. He later attended the

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and earned a BA in political science and English. While in college, Wilcox worked for

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. After college, Wilcox managed the Naildrivers, a rock band, for two years. Wilcox holds three citizenships; UK (his birth), US and Swiss (through inheritance).

Career

Wilcox worked in a customer service job at Virgin Atlantic Airways. During that time, Wilcox helped review business plans and liked a plan by David Neeleman, founder of

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. He joined Neeleman and launched

in 1999. Wilcox worked at JetBlue for six years and left to launch

. In 2006, Wilcox partnered with

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and wrote the business plan for JetSuite, a business jet charter company. In July 2007, Wilcox began to serve as CEO of JetSuite.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilcox, Alex 1971 births Living people 21st-century American businesspeople University of Vermont alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Henry Crown Fellows