Inventor John Lert has another way to describe it: “unpaid warehouse worker.” Lert is the co-founder and CEO at Alert Innovation, a Billerica company looking to transform the way people buy ...

New Hampshire billionaire Rick Cohen built Symbotic into the biggest robotics company in the area after he bought out founder and inventor John Lert 15 years ago amid a cash crunch during the ...

Founder John Lert will become Executive Chairman and hand the CEO reins to Fritz Morgan, who has been serving as COO. “I had this transition in mind when I asked Fritz to help me lead Alert ...

Dairy-policy expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the sharp decline in milk consumption that pushed the No. 1 producer into bankruptcy John Lert, CEO of grocery automation firm Alert ...

John Lert, founder of the automation startup Alert Innovation in North Billerica, Massachusetts, has been re-imagining the grocery store since 1994. The idea then was to automate the vast center of ...