Alan lived and worked in Japan for 16 years from 1992 till 2008. After completing a post-graduate degree in Japanese and International Business Studies, he worked in Fujitsu’s International Sales & Marketing Division and then spent five years at a Japanese systems engineering company where he coordinated multi-vendor projects for international automobile OEMs and suppliers in collaboration with the major Japanese trading houses. He joined Intralink in Tokyo in 2000 becoming a Project Director in 2003 and General Manager in 2005. He has managed and directed a broad cross-section of projects in software, IP and brand licensing as well as hardware and component sales in the fixed/mobile/enterprise communications, consumer electronics and financial sectors. He has driven revenues on behalf of Intralink’s European and US clients with most of the Japanese carriers, SIs, handset makers, consumer electronics OEMs and semiconductor manufacturers and maintains close links with the Japanese VC community.

In 2007 Alan established Intralink America Inc. and in 2008 he relocated to Santa Clara, California, where he is now responsible for promoting Intralink's services to North America-based technology companies.

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