Alan Spoon
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Who is Alan Spoon?
Alan has more than 20 years of operating executive and investment experience
and is currently managing general partner with Polaris Venture Partners. Alan
focuses on investments in information technology, with an emphasis on
revenue-stage companies, digital media, and e-commerce.
Before coming to Polaris, Alan was with The Washington Post Company, where he
worked for 18 years. During his career with The Post Company, he served as
president, chief operating officer, board member, chief financial officer,
president of Newsweek, head of newspaper marketing, and head of corporate
business development. Prior to The Washington Post, Alan was an officer at The
Boston Consulting Group, an international management consulting firm
specializing in corporate strategy.
Alan earned his B.S. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a M.S. at
M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management; and a J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law
School.
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- Also known as
- Alan G Spoon
- Education
- Juris Doctor, Harvard Law School
Law - Master of Science, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Juris Doctor, Harvard Law School
- Employment
- Managing General Partner, Polaris Partners
- President, The Graham Holdings Company
- Chief Operating Officer, The Graham Holdings Company
- Chief Financial Officer, The Graham Holdings Company
- President, Newsweek, The Graham Holdings Company
- Boston Consulting Group
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on July 23, 2013
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