Allen Spiegel is a product of the streets and Housing projects of Brooklyn, NY. He is a recent resident of South Florida.

After a public school education, Allen graduated with a Bachelors Degree from Brooklyn College. During his college years, he held his first sales job selling vacuum cleaners for Hoover, and was a newscaster and Assistant News Director for WBCR, Brooklyn College Radio.

Motivated partly by the desire to serve his country, and partly by a lack of marketable skills, Allen enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. Taking yet another step towards a career in sales, Allen earned a meritorious promotion for recruiting before being honorably discharged. The training experience at Parris Island has influenced his ideas about tenacity, personal commitment and training and motivation to this day.

Allen’s first full time sales job was in the boot camp of selling… cold calling to sell copiers in the skyscrapers of Manhattan.

Successful experience at Recognition Equipment and Pertec transformed his selling career from selling office products and equipment to selling high technology solutions to large firms.

In 1981, Allen began a ten year career with Digital Equipment Corporation. During this time he was a sales representative, a sales manager, and a sales training consultant, he received honors for his performance in each of these three areas. More importantly, it was during this time that Allen evolved into a change agent and thought leader, contributing to, and influencing the creation of two new business areas for Digital. In each case he contributed both by exceeding his personal sales objectives, as well as by helping to define the sales strategy, models and methodology. During this period in his "spare time", Allen earned his MBA in Marketing Management from Baruch College, City University of New York

After leaving Digital, Allen began a career as a consultant in the areas of sales training, and business sales and organizational development. In this role, he trained sales people and sales managers from such companies as IBM, Microsoft, Motorola and Unisys in The United States, Mexico and Canada. Additionally, he led a project which defined workflows, and business processes to form the basis for an early CRM system. He also did staffing and recruiting work as well.

In 1995, Allen’s previous success in growing new or non-traditional businesses caught the attention of the Attachmate Corporation. Once again, he coupled sales success with thought leadership selling remote access solutions to Fortune 500 customers. In 1998, Allen closed one the largest competitive wins in the Company’s history. Concurrently, he became the single largest revenue generator in Attachmate’s fledgling professional services and consulting business. The customer, Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) to this day generates one of the largest product and service revenue annuity streams in the Company.

Allen was an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Pace University in New York from 1998 until he moved his family to South Florida in 2002. At Pace, he taught selling, sales management and Managerial Marketing at the undergraduate and graduate level. His MBA level course in sales management is consistently full, and highly rated by his students.

Allen's non-business interests include music, and he is a very capable, if not amateur guitarist. In this realm he counts as his highlight having performed at Greenwich Village's Gerde's Folk City, on the same stage where many of his heroes including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and others have played.

The highlights of his life are his two children, with whom he shares a passion for such things as sports, music and Walt Disney World.

Allen is an active participant and contributor to the South Florida community in organizations which benefit children's education, sports and career development.