Alan grew up immersed in the sixties' vision of infinite possibility. He began his career in 1977 at Price Waterhouse, structuring and negotiating Fortune 500 merger and acquisition transactions. After decades of managing and advising large multinational companies, as well as the type of early-stage organizations that launched his career, Alan migrated to brand, story and executive development for some of the largest brands in the world. If it could be said that one is a product of the mentors who have poured their life energy into the next generation, and Alan is clearly in this lineage. In his early career he had mentors such as Milton Friedman, Peter Drucker, and Stephen Covey to name a few. Stephen Covey was his professor in college and later a fellow director on the board at the school of management at Brigham Young University. Milton Friedman selected Alan to assist him the IBM Memorex antitrust suit of the late 70's. Alan spent hours with Peter Drucker in the mid-80s as he did graduate work at the Claremont Graduate School. Peter's emphasis that corporate organizations should expand their footprint within the community fabric is a lesson that Alan has never forgotten. Once in India, Alan spent years in Poona in the ashram of Osho. It was there that he spent thousands of hours in process and encounter groups as well as meditation. He became a therapist facilitating groups of seekers in primal, encounter and meditative offerings. It was through a relationship with Ramesh Balsekar, a former CEO of the Bank of India and Advaitan sage, that Alan graduated from the tough school of mentorship.In terms of pure metrics, Alan's biography is robust. In his early career he was the senior partner of a significant merger & acquisition CPA firm numbering over 100. His role was to prepare companies for acquisition or possibly becoming public. He participated in CEO resource groups with executives from major corporations such as Pacific Mutual, Allergan, and Fairchild Semiconductors. During this time, he served on boards of director for Martin Luther Hospital, Corona Community Hospital, and Micro Data Services. Over the years he has served on numerous other boards as well. And as well Alan was asked to teach Mergers & Acquisitions at Cal State Fullerton, Entrepreneurial Studies at Claremont Graduate School and Leadership Development at The University of San Diego.Alan's corporate roles have included stints as CFO, CEO, as well as a founder of several successful entities. Alan left the professional services world at the age of 36 and spent several years in India engaged in his own personal path. Upon his return he took assignments as a founder and CFO for digital imagery company as well as CEO assignments of several companies in the $500,000,000+ range in revenues. He executed these assignments for venture capital firms seeking an exit from these investments. Alan lives in a remote agricultural area on the Big Island of Hawaii, with his wife of 25 years, Justine. She is a yoga therapist and healer who works with those threatened by traumatic illness. Alan's children- Kristin, 38 and Michael, 35- both graduated with business degrees from University of Southern California and University of Arizona, respectively and are both avid entrepreneurs. Alan has had a lifelong love affair with rescued dogs and as you read this, it is likely that Rama and Juneau are sleeping at his feet in the office whilst he mentors executives in their spiritual search.
