Logical, detail-oriented, thinker; with a penchant for words and clever sentence structures. A software engineer by trade, he began his career building websites for the BBC before the dot com bubble burst. Alan has worked on Wall Street, in the sleepy Cotswold countyside, the swamps in Louisiana, and the big smoke of Belfast. A pragmatic serial entrepreneur, with more fails than wins, and a relentless ambition to build a world-class product-led technology company in Northern Ireland and IPO it.