Alan has had a long and varied business and legal career. A serial entrepreneur, he founded, co-founded and was CEO of several high technology and telecommunications companies. Among them were Nashoba Communications, an early U.S. cable television company ($100M sale); GlobaLAN, which installed the first Wi-Fi network in the U.S.; Sepaton (formerly SANgate), an early data storage management company sold to Hitachi Data Systems; and CapeNet, which built and operated a 350-mile fiber optic network on Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts.

Most recently, he formed Hemp Integrators LLC, to facilitate the purchase and sale of large amounts of hemp nationwide. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Alan was a full-time attorney in Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington D.C. He earned a B.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.