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Specialties: Business Growth Transition Management. Business growth transitions are very disruptive and risky, whose outcomes are uncertain. Working with CEOs and entrepreneurs, taking their companies through challenging periods (e.g. rapid growth or stagnation, game changing competition or events, loss of direction or leadership) to resource and execute results focused strategic shifts, enabling CEO’s to effect balanced changes within their businesses.
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Partner and Founder
Company Name American Law Firm Funding, LLC
Dates EmployedDec 2013 – Present
Employment Duration 5 yrs 1 mo
LocationScottsdale, AZ
American Law Firm Funding, LLC meets the financial needs of law firms limited by traditional financing with funding options based on law firms’ growth potential.
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Founder
Company Name American Legal Funding LLC
Dates Employed2003 – Present
Employment Duration 15 yrs
American Legal Funding. American Legal Fund Management AZ LLC, wholly owned by American Legal Funding LLC, forms and manages specialized private equity funds for accredited investors to financially assist plaintiffs involved in civil litigation, helping mitigate their damages.
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Managing Member
Company Name Alanex LLC
Dates EmployedJan 2002 – Present
Employment Duration 17 yrs
Alanex LLC works with a select group of CEOs and entrepreneurs who are taking their growth companies through challenging transitions, especially resourcing and executing results focused strategic "go-to-market" campaigns. Most transitions are very disruptive and risky, whose outcomes are uncertain. Alanex’s unique experience, talent and perspective enable… See more
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Chairman; Chief Strategy Officer, Consultant
Company Name iCrossing
Dates Employed1999 – 2003
Employment Duration 4 yrs
During iCrossing’s formative years, served as a consultant from 1999-2003 and as Chairman of the Board from 2000 to 2002. According to founder Jeff Herzog “Together, Alan and I are building Internet Crossing into the leading global Internet marketing services company. Internet Crossing is now scaling its business, expanding into larger accounts and entering overseas markets. … See more
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Director
Company Name Realink
Dates Employed1999 – 2002
Employment Duration 3 yrs
An entrepreneur driven e-commerce company specializing in on-line real estate appraisals and mortgage services to the mortgage banking industry including an automated property valuation model available via the Internet for consumers and the mortgage banking industry. Assisted in introducing company to NY based, Insight Venture Partners who invested. The recession … See more
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Director
Company Name Integrated Information Systems, Inc
Dates Employed1999 – 2001
Employment Duration 2 yrs
Great home grown company. In 2000 as a Tempe, AZ based full-service Internet solutions firm, jumped to number two as Arizona’s 50 fastest growing technology companies, and was named the top company in the Technology Service Provider category. Successfully taken public by Robertson Stephens in early 2000, then, like many other Internet service companies, faced challenge… See more
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Civic Entrepreneur
Company Name Arizona
Dates Employed1972 – 2001
Employment Duration 29 yrs
Chairman of the Arizona Technology Incubator (1996-2000); Co-Chair of the Governor’s Arizona Partnership for the New Economy (APNE) (1999-2001); Arizona Science Center Board Member (1996-1998); Chairman, High Technology School-To-Work Partnership (1993-1995); Chairman, Arizona Innovation Network (1992-1994); Chairman of Arizona Strategic Partnership for … See more
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Executive in Residence
Company Name Arizona State University
Dates EmployedSep 1999 – Sep 2000
Employment Duration 1 yr 1 mo
Brought together University faculty and administration with Arizona entrepreneurs building high growth technology driven companies to foster cooperation and development of projects with mutual benefits.
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Past Chairman and Director
Company Name CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association)
Dates Employed1984 – 2000
Employment Duration 16 yrs
Served as chairman for three terms, first as Vice Chairman and completing the term of the resigning Chairman and then elected for a full term; recruiting/hiring John Venator as Executive Director who, with quality staff and board direction, executed a turnaround from no cash in 1984 to a $50 million annual budget (with surpluses) by the late-nineties. Elected to serve a third term as Chair… See more
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Director
Company Name CoreData, Inc.
Dates Employed1997 – 1999
Employment Duration 2 yrs
CoreData, Inc., a privately held company, founded in 1995 in Phoenix, AZ, was a leading software developer of high speed backup software for remote and mobile personal computers. MicroAge, Inc. made a venture investment in 1997 to accelerate the productizing and marketing of CoreData’s applications. Although CoreData had the best in class product, the Board realized that it … See more
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Chairman
Company Name Image Choice Inc.
Dates Employed1996 – 1999
Employment Duration 3 yrs
Image Choice, Inc., in 1996 started as a wholly owned MicroAge, Inc subsidiary anticipating the availability of standardized workflow application platforms (within that decade) that would “Change the Way the World Works”. The company quickly became the first and leading imaging integrator to successfully leverage the reseller channel in the planning, implementation and support of … See more
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Co-Founder, Chairman, Vice Chairman, President, Director
Company Name MicroAge, Inc.
Dates Employed1976 – 1999
Employment Duration 23 yrs
Alan Hald and Jeff McKeever co-founded MicroAge, Inc in 1976 with the trademarked motto, "Where Vision Becomes Reality" as its banner for the computer revolution yet to happen; a vision of building a billion dollar business in seven years and a business plan focused on the reality of surviving through December. Served in various executive positions including… See more
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Officer
Company Name First Interstate Bank/First National Bank of Arizona
Dates EmployedJul 1972 – Aug 1976
Employment Duration 4 yrs 2 mos
Analytical presentations for the FNBA Board of Directors; marketing research; managed marketing and operations of bank’s small business automation services (payroll, apartment management) on an "orphaned" Univac mainframe (with Jeff McKeever). We left the bank to start MicroAge, Inc. Friends and relatives wondered why would we leave promising banking careers to sell… See more
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Captain
Company Name United States Army Reserve
Dates EmployedJan 1971 – Dec 1972
Employment Duration 2 yrs
Harvard ROTC, commissioned 2LT January 1971 as a Military Intelligence Officer (trained Ft. Holabird, MD ) and Combat Infantry Officer (trained Ft. Benning, GA). Served active duty in the Army Combat Developments Command Intelligence Agency at Ft. Holabird, MD and Ft. Huachuca, AZ until the end of 1972. Promoted to Captain and received Meritorious Service Medal. Honorably discha… See more
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