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Alan brings entrepreneurship and operational expertise to DCVC, particularly in executive development, product development, and go-to-market. He is an executive and a board member with hands-on experience running large enterprises as well as startup companies. His past three ventures created over $4B in aggregate value and today generate $6B in revenue.

Alan serves on the Board of Directors of numerous DCVC portfolio companies including Evolv Technology, Kentik, and Caption Health. Prior to DCVC, Alan was the Chief Commercial Officer and served on the Board of Directors at Illumio, one of DCVC’s portfolio companies. Before Illumio, Alan was VP of Marketing at Nicira, which was acquired by VMWare for $1.3 billion. Prior to Nicira, Alan served as VP and head of marketing for Cisco’s $25 billion enterprise business, managing over 400 people and 25 product lines. Alan came to Cisco via the $460M acquisition of Airespace, where he was an early employee and served as VP of Marketing and Product Management. Alan received an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, an MA in International Affairs from American University and a BA from SUNY Buffalo.