Alan completed a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. He spent a short time in the consulting engineering fraternity before joining African Cables as a design engineer in 1997.. Alan held several management positions in the organisation before assuming responsibility for all commercial activity in. February 2000. He was appointed commercial director in 2007 a position he held until being appointed managing director in February 2009. Alan was promoted to managing director of the CBI-electric businesses on 25 October 2012.. On 21 November 2013 Alan was appointed as an executive director of the Reunert board and as the chief executive officer of Reunert on 1 October 2014.
