Alex Leshnick joined the USC Stevens team in 2008 as a Licensing and Marketing Specialist where he works to transfer USC owned intellectual property to industry through targeted marketing. Before joining USC Stevens, Alex worked for Farmers Insurance in the Customer Insight Services Group and also served two internships in the Output Processing Center maintaining sophisticated high speed printing and mailing equipment. While in the CISG he was responsible for the National Customer Service Week ad campaign where he coordinated personalized customer mailings, local agent awareness activities, and a national press release for USA Today. Alex also created databases to track customer experience data to ensure a high quality customer service. A graduate of UC Davis, Alex was an advanced undergraduate researcher studying ethylene biosynthesis relating to fruit ripening in the Polomogy department. Alex graduated from UC Davis with a B.S. in Genetics.