Bio

Allen is a Senior Principal for The Catalyst Group and is responsible for sourcing and evaluating potential investment opportunities, structuring and negotiating transactions, leading due diligence and managing portfolio investments. Allen has over 20 years of technology leadership experience, including senior roles in early-stage, growth-stage and publicly held companies that ranged from $13M to over $2B in revenue. Allen was most recently CTO and COO at Medici in Austin, TX where he oversaw the company’s technology and operations as its telemedicine platform grew rapidly in response to COVID-19. Prior to that, Allen was recruited to venture-backed rental car startup Silvercar as CTO, where he helped open 18 US locations and 2 product divisions before selling to Audi in 2017. Allen also served on the founding team at iSeatz, where as CTO and COO he helped build technology solutions for some of the world’s leading travel brands, including Delta, KLM, Air France, Air Canada, Alaska, Marriott, Mastercard and American Express. Prior to that Allen held leadership roles in the US and in Europe with Hotels.com and Expedia. Allen is on the Advisory Board for the Customer Experience Program at the Bauer College of Business in Houston, and earned his Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Missouri State University.