Alan has spent the last 34 years in sales, sales management, sales director and general management positions. He spent 26 years with Hewlett-Packard and subsequently Agilent Technologies the spin off Test & Measurement company from HP. Continuing his experience in systems & solutions selling he moved into the IT space and spent 4 years as the national strategic channels manager for UXC Connect and as the sales director for Logicalis Australia. In 2016 he set up Array Technologies, a world leader in utility scale solar tracking systems, in Australia. He led the successful sales of 24 solar farms totaling 2.1GW with sales in excess of US$200M. In April 2021 he joined Signal Energy Australia as the Head of Project & Business Development.He has been a part of a number of leadership development programs within HP and specializes in account management planning, channel development, sales development and training. He was educated in the UK with a BSc (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from The University of Manchester and has a Diploma in International Business Management from the Helsinki School of Economics. He has a passion and commitment to succeed and having been brought up in Liverpool UK is a huge Liverpool FC fan and has followed them and supported them on the famous Kop at Anfield since he was 10 years of age. So much so he has a recently acquired ‘Covid puppy’ a Spanador (Cocker spaniel / Labrador cross) who he named ‘Shankly’. If you don’t know who Shankly is then that’s the quiz question for the day. Here are a few of his key attributes:• STRONG LEADERSHIP• AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR• STRONG SALES M’GT• RESULTS DRIVEN• AN ORIGINAL THINKER• CLEAR FOCUS & DIRECTION• RIGOROUS BUSINESS PLANNING