When Alicia Boler Davis, a former senior leader at Amazon, left the retail giant last summer, she made an unexpected move.
After departing her post as senior vice president of global customer fulfillment, a job she held through the rush of pandemic demand, she took over as CEO of Alto, a prescription delivery startup. The more obvious path for Boler Davis—who also spent nearly 25 years at GM, where she became the head of global manufacturing and labor relations—would have put her in the corner office at a Fortune 500 company. But she sought a different kind of challenge. “I wanted to do something more impactful and transformational,” she told Fortune.
