Alex Ellerson is the Chief Operating Officer of People Inc. Before joining People Inc., Alex served as the General Counsel & COO at Howcast. Prior to joining Howcast, Alex was the Head of Entertainment and Premium Content Partnerships for Google Video and YouTube, and earlier, a General Manager and Senior Director of Business Development at Yahoo! (working on both Yahoo’s Media and Entertainment and Search teams). He was also the COO & General Counsel for CMJ, an Associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and a law clerk to The Honorable Amalya L. Kearse (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit).