August 14, 2025 – While working as a tech consultant for a large health care system in 2023, Alex Northington was surprised to get a call from a recruiter about a data management job opening at an unlikely place: M.S. Rau, the 113-year-old French Quarter-based purveyor of high-end jewelry, fine art and antiques.
After his initial confusion evolved into curiosity, Northington decided to make the career switch, and two years later, he is leading the gallery’s full-scale data mining operation as its first director of artificial intelligence.