Lexi Reese
Operational Advisor
Lexi Reese is currently building Lanai, as its co-founder and CEO. Lenai is a Gen AI empowerment platform that enables large employers and their employees to lean into AI with clarity, control, and confidence. She previously ran for the U.S. Senate in California.
She started her career in film and public policy, working at a non-profit and successfully advocating for hundreds of millions in micro-financing for people. Lexi then went on to Harvard Business School where she focused on how the public, private, and nonprofit sectors can come together to end economic inequality.
She led the launch of the Make Mine a Million program at American Express to provide loans, coaching, and networking to women and BIPOC small business owners. At Google, Lexi helped small businesses compete with big chains and helped writers and other content creators get paid for their work. And as Chief Operating Officer of Gusto, she helped grow the customer base from 10,000 to 200,000 small and medium sized businesses, giving them the tools to easily pay and insure more than 1 million workers. Under her leadership, she fought for small businesses to access more than $2.5 billion in federal loans to protect their teams during the pandemic.
