Alex Wellen

Executive leader with over twenty years of diverse experience building world-class consumer businesses. A proven operator with a track record of modernizing global brands and catapulting growth by delivering essential, data-infused, digital products, services, and platforms that enrich people’s lives. Passionate about building and empowering cross-functional teams to innovate, disrupt, and execute. A thought leader in the convergence of traditional and new media, and a change agent committed to creating a culture of possibility.

Alex Wellen is Global President and General Manager of MotorTrend Group, the largest automotive media company in the world. MotorTrend Group is a joint venture with Discovery, and reaches more than 131 million fans every month across its portfolio of media properties. Since joining MotorTrend Group in 2018, Alex has led the transformation of the MotorTrend brand into a modern media company, creating essential, addictive products and services while expanding MotorTrend’s reach with new programming, events, and gaming.

While at CNN, Alex was central to reimagining the global brand and transforming a legacy cable TV network into a digital global powerhouse – #1 in multiplatform monthly uniques and the fastest-growing BU within CNN Worldwide. His career has spanned executive roles across all aspects of the Digital and TV business.