Background
His mother is Nancy Walker Bush Ellis, a sister of former President George H. W. Bush.
His mother is Nancy Walker Bush Ellis, a sister of former President George H. W. Bush.
Ellis grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and attended Milton Academy high school, he later went to Colorado College. He studied business at receiving a Masters in Business Administration.
Alexander B. Ellis II (1922–1989), was an executive with insurance firm Fairfield & Ellis (which merged into Corroon & Black, now a part of Willis Group Holdings). Early in his career Ellis went to work for United States Senator Edward Brooke (R-Master of Arts) as a Legislative Assistant. Alexander Ellis III" father Alexander Ellis Junior. was in insurance and this influenced him to enter it as a career.
As the alternative energy sector was growing Ellis set up a practice in that specialization.
Energy efficiency effects modular furniture implementation and design and he was hired by the furniture firm Knoll. Knoll was later acquired by Westinghouse at which point Ellis moved on.
Ellis was recruited to Kenetech Corporation, one of the nation"s foremost windpower development and turbine manufacturers. There was considerable interest in implementing windpower at the time and tax incentive support.
Subsequent to Kenetech and before joining RockPort, Ellis and a partner formed a company which developed two independent power plants.
These were sizeable facilities both were gas and over 500+MW. One of these electric generation plants was in Maine. He is also involved with other entrepreneurial endeavors. Alexander Ellis III is Chairman of Clean Diesel Technologies Incorporated.
Alexander Ellis III graduated from Colorado College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and subsequently went on to earn a Masters in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management.
Both Alexander Ellis and George Bush were members of Skull and Bones at Yale. While working for Senator Brooke among the issues he had to assist the Senator on was the turmoil in the nations energy supply caused by the change towards a more assertive pricing strategy by members of Organisation of Petroleum Export Countries. •Member of the Board, George Bush Presidential Library Foundation
•Member of the Board, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
•Massachusetts Audubon Society, council member and member of the finance and administration committee.