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Alexis Collado

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Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Swarm
📍 Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

Alexis Collado is the Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Swarm, an AI platform accelerating enterprise AI adoption. A Tatler Gen. T 2025 Honouree, he is a key figure in the design community, having also co-founded Asias largest design conference, UX+, and led design for YC startups. People often describe him as a pioneering, valuable mentor and leader.

He is passionate about empowering the next generation of Filipino designers. He hosts the "Roots" podcast to profile their stories, coaches early-stage designers at Specter, and founded the first student UX organization in the Philippines. Outside of design, he enjoys playing badminton and the video game DoTA 2.

His podcast, "Roots, " profiling world-class Filipino designers, ranked Top 2 in the Design category on Apple Podcasts in the Philippines.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines
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AI in Product Design
His work at Swarm focuses on AI transformation and Agentic UX. He actively experiments with and discusses the impact of generative AI tools like Gemini and Claude on design.
Design Community Building
He co-founded the UX+ Conference and the Philippines' first student UX club. He also hosts a podcast dedicated to profiling Filipino designers worldwide.
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Career

Work history

3-2021
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer
Swarm
8-2021
Design Fellow
On Deck
6-2019
Design Coach, Founder
Specter
7-2019
Co-Founder, UX+ Conference
UX+
12-2017
Host and Producer
Roots — A Podcast on Filipino Designers
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Education
2014 - 2018
BS Management Information Systems
Ateneo de Manila University
2017 - 2017
Asia-Pacific Entrepreneurship Summit
Stanford University
2010 - 2014
Valedictorian
Lourdes School Quezon City
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