Business Leadership
Alan's career in the technology industry spans 20 years with early technology marketing, sales, and engineering experience at IBM and Xerox. More recently, Mr. McCann has held influential senior and executive management roles at global industry leaders and innovators such as DivX Inc., ATI Technologies Inc. (ATYT), Ravisent Technologies Inc. (RVST), and Phoenix Technologies Inc. (PTEC). In each of these roles, Alan spearheaded industry changing efforts on behalf of his company including internet delivery of video, multimedia PC technology, 3D Gaming, DVD playback on PC's, low cost consumer electronic DVD players, and self-healing PC diagnostic software. Most recently, Alan was head of Product Management and the Software Business Unit at DivX Inc.
Though born in Switzerland, Alan grew up in Canada and was educated at two of the top Canadian Universities. He received his MBA from the Schulich School of Business in Toronto and his Bachelor of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Alan currently resides with his family in Southern California and is involved with several technology companies in active leadership or advisory roles.