Alan Cooke is Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel at Attivio, responsible for finance, legal, human resources, and operations.. Alan was formerly Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where he worked as an equity research analyst covering the enterprise software industry, including such companies as Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Salesforce.com,. Sybase, Lawson and Informatica.. Previously, Alan held business development, strategic planning, and operations management positions at Oracle.. He has also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and as an attorney at Macdonald Affleck.. Alan earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a JD from the University of Toronto, and a BA from the University of Ottawa. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and is admitted to practice as an attorney in the state of New York.