Alexander Prezioso is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army who honorably served his state and nation for more than thirty-one years as a Soldier, officer, commander, and senior leader. Throughout his career, he served in the Infantry, Military Police Corps, Adjutant General Corps, and Army Acquisition, leading Soldiers in combat, domestic emergency response, and enterprise modernization initiatives.

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Born in Nyack, New York, and raised in the Town of Wawayanda, Alex developed an early passion for military service while participating in the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program at Minisink Valley High School. At seventeen years old, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve and completed Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, during the summer between his junior and senior years of high school.

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Alex attended Valley Forge Military Academy & College through the ROTC Early Commissioning Program and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1998. He later earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany before attending the Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, where his class was conducting a field training exercise when they learned of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

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Over the course of his military career, Alex served in a wide variety of leadership positions within the New York Army National Guard. He deployed twice to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and later deployed to Kuwait as the Task Force Spartan and 42nd Infantry Division Safety Officer. He commanded both the 727th Law and Order Detachment and Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 104th Military Police Battalion, while also serving in key assignments supporting Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Sandy, homeland response operations, and emergency management throughout New York.

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Following his transition into Army Acquisition, Alex served as the Deputy Product Director for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A), one of the Army's largest modernization programs. After returning to civilian employment, he continued supporting IPPS-A, helping lead training, deployment, sustainment, and mobile application initiatives that have transformed how the Army manages its Soldiers around the world.

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Alex retired from military service in 2026 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, concluding a career defined by leadership, perseverance, and service.

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He is the author of American Leader, an autobiography chronicling the lessons learned throughout his thirty-one years in uniform, and My Poetic Deployment, a collection of poetry written to help process the experiences and emotions of combat deployment. Through his writing, Alex hopes to inspire others to lead with integrity, persevere through adversity, and recognize that true leadership is rooted in service to others.

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Alex resides in Connecticut with his wife, Bree, and their three children, Brayden, Landon, and Avery.

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