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Alex Welch

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Alex is the Co-Founder and ex-CEO of Photobucket. He founded MMO gaming company Slime Sandwich in 2009, and works as their Chief Strategic Advisor and Chairman of the Board.

As CEO of Photobucket, he was responsible for developing the overall vision, strategy and product roadmap for the company. In 2003, Alex and his Co-Founder Darren Crystal observed that e-commerce and social networking users were in need of an easy-to-use centralized “hub” to store and publish images.

Prior to founding Photobucket, Alex was a software engineer at Level 3 Communications where he was responsible for developing advanced networking software and services.

Alex received his BS degree from Colorado State University, with an emphasis in Computer Information Systems.

Milestones

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• 
  Alex Welch invested in Slime Sandwich. (10/1/09)
  Posted 10/1/09 at 6:49pm
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  Alex Welch invested in DanceJam. (5/1/07)
  Posted 10/31/07 at 6:49am
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  Alex Welch added a position as founder and CEO at Photobucket (Old).
  Posted 5/26/07 at 4:44am
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  Alex Welch added a position as Founder, Chief Strategic Advisor at Slime Sandwich.
  Posted 10/1/09 at 3:11pm

Videos

Investments

Sources

1. Photobucket Founders On To Their Next Startup: SlimeSandwich (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. techcrunch.com [edit]