About the Author

About the author

Alan Gleeson

Alan GleesonAlan Gleeson is the Managing Director of Palo Alto Software, Ltd., creators of Business Plan Pro® Version 11. He joined the company in September 2004 from Barclays PLC. Alan originally joined Barclays on their Graduate Business Leadership Programme back in 1998 and worked in a number of roles within the group. During his time at Barclays, Alan was seconded to Freeserve where he worked as a Business Development Manager on the start-up Clearlybusiness.com . He has been writing on business planning and entrepreneurship for a number of years and is currently contributing to Irish Entrepreneur Magazine and Start Your Business Magazine. He holds an MBA from Oxford University and an MSc and B.Comm Degree from University College, Cork, Ireland.

Read Alan’s Blog at Business Plan U.K.