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.