Alex is the CEO & Co-Founder of Hallow, a Catholic app for prayer, meditation, music, bible, and sleep. Hallow has over one billion minutes prayed, 18 million downloads, 500 million prayers prayed, 200,000 five-star reviews, and is the #1 Catholic app in the world. Over Lent, Hallow became the #1 app in the app store.
Alex was raised a Catholic but fell away from his faith at a young age. He became fascinated with secular meditation but kept feeling like he was being pulled towards something spiritual. He began asking around and discovered the deeply contemplative and meditative tradition within the Catholic faith. Through it, God changed his life, brought him back to the faith, and inspired the idea behind Hallow. Over the last couple years the Hallow team has grown with the app, raising venture funding from some of the best investors in the world and scaling the team to 90 folks.
Alex grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame School of Engineering in 2015 and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2020. He worked professionally in consulting in Chicago before Hallow at McKinsey & Co as an Engagement Manager, and now lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, and son. He’s been blessed to be named a member of Forbes 30 under 30 with his two co-founders Erich Kerekes and Alessandro DiSanto, a member of the inaugural University of Notre Dame Domer Dozen, and the recipient of the 2023 Legatus Bowie Kuhn Award.