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Alan is a General Partner at DCVC, the original Deep Tech venture firm. His early work with the firm included Evolv Technology (Nasdaq: EVLV), the AI weapons-detection leader he helped take public, as well as Element AI (acquired by ServiceNow) and Caption Health (acquired by GE Healthcare). He currently guides—and sits on the boards of—DCVC’s investments in Reach Power (wireless power), Proprio (AI surgical navigation), Fulfil (robotic grocery fulfillment), and Knit.AI (enterprise tech intelligence).

Before joining DCVC, Alan spent 25 years building and scaling category-defining companies. He was the Chief Commercial Officer and on the board of Illumio and held executive or board roles at Nicira (acquired by VMware), Airespace (acquired by Cisco), Cisco itself—where he led the $25 billion Enterprise Marketing & Solutions group—General Growth Properties, and IBM.

Alan holds degrees in English (SUNY Buffalo; University of Vermont), Foreign Policy (American University), and an MBA from NYU Stern. A prolific speaker and writer on technology, he comes from a lineage of service: his grandfather fought as a WWI “Pershing Doughboy,” and his father, a Navy corpsman, earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart in Korea.