Grant Allen

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Grant Allen is a Vice President with Core Capital Partners, a $350 million early-stage venture fund in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Grant was at Microsoft, where he was a Product Manager in the Mobile & Embedded Devices division and developed competitive strategy for the Windows Mobile smartphone operating system.

Previously, Grant worked with the CEO of Jingle Networks’ 1-800-FREE-411, was a consultant at Dean & Company, and worked with a number of start-ups, including Bates White, an economics consulting firm; Nextera Interactive, a Internet incubator and IT consulting firm; and A-k Presence, a web design and IT services firm he co-founded. He is a frequent speaker on wireless and new media industry topics and is actively involved with a number of non-profit organizations including the Ocular Melanoma Foundation, which he founded.

Grant holds an engineering degree with honors from Duke University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. There, he was a Citi Foundation Leadership Fellow, an Executive Director of the Wharton Graduate Association, and sat on the board of the Wharton Alumni Association.

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