Photo — Dr. Cedric D. Alford
Dr. Cedric D. Alford
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Cedric D. Alford became President and Chief Executive Officer of XylaWorks in August 2024. He is responsible for overall strategy, market development, and commercial architecture across the platform’s four revenue channels — direct consumer, employer offboarding, institutional licensing, and workforce development partnerships.
Dr. Alford spent three decades in enterprise technology, including roles as Global Director, Marketing Solutions Sales and U.S. Director, Digital Sales for Data and AI in Regulated Industries at Microsoft, where his work was the commercial introduction of the foundational AI technology now operating across the industry. He has worked under the leadership of two of the most studied chief executives of the modern era — Jack Welch and Satya Nadella — and the operating discipline of both is present in how the company is being built. XylaWorks is the application of that career to a problem agentic AI is now ready to address, in markets where the impact reaches communities that the previous generation of career technology did not serve.
Dr. Alford has also taught the work. He has served as a graduate professor of Management, Leadership, and Marketing for fifteen years, including as Marketing Faculty Leader at the Jack Welch Management Institute, and has spoken publicly on ESG and the role of intelligent automation in expanding economic participation. He holds a Doctorate in Management.