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About McAlan

Allen Campbell, JD, MBA — Founder and CEO

Leading light in Sustainability, with a deep understanding of the theory and practice of ESG. Informed by legal, financial  and business experience. Authority on Value Chain Sustainability legislation. (See elsewhere in this website.)  Effective communicator, skilled negotiator, adept at helping businesses and stakeholders “do ESG” well.

Allen understands that ESG, compliance and risk management are inherently intertwined. He is the creator of the R-ESG Model, which integrates Resilience (both business resilience and personal resilience) with ESG. Allen is also the creator of other proprietary systems for managing risk, compliance, ESG and resilience.

Allen is a graduate of the College of Wooster (AB), Columbia University (JD) and the University of Chicago (MBA) where he studied under three Nobel laureates. He started his professional life as an attorney with the Taft law firm (featured in the Dark Waters environmental justice movie). He was later an investment banker in New York in the corporate finance department of Bear Stearns, a major bracket investment bank that pioneered what became known as “private equity”. Allen then spent a year in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a full-time strategic advisor to the the chief executive of Arthur D. Little Inc., a leading international consulting firm, and the president of its ADL Enterprises unit. Allen then came to Dallas where he directed the corporate finance department of the regional investment banking firm Schneider Bernet & Hickman.

With all that educational and professional background, Allen became an entrepreneur.

He has founded, co-founded, owned or co-owned, many companies, including an investment research business whose quantitative work won many industry awards, and magazine companies that published American Visions, the official magazine of the African American Museums Association, and Marlin, about big game sport fishing. Allen created Murex Corporation, a biotechnology leader in the war against AIDS. Murex invented and commercialized the acclaimed Single Use Diagnostic System for HIV-1 (“SUDS”), which was the first, and for years the only, product approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) for rapid HIV testing. Murex became International Murex Technologies, which became a publicly held company, and was thereafter acquired by Abbott Labs.


Allen Campbell, the founder of McAlan

Deep knowledge of accounting, complex business analysis and Sustainability/ESG.

Michael Kraten is an executive management consultant and business educator. He maintains specialties in entrepreneurship, business modeling, decision analysis, sustainability and resilience, educational gaming, strategic planning, valuation, risk management, and forensic analysis.

Dr. Kraten has more than forty years of management consulting and  higher education experience. He is the Technical Expert for Sustainability and Resilience at PKF O’Connor Davies and Director of Intellectual Content for the Sustainability Investment Leadership Council (SILC).

In academia, he most recently completed a two year term as Director of Accounting Program Initiatives at the University of Houston, where he focused on developing innovative approaches to sustainability, entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, and the “pipeline” challenge of attracting students to the accounting profession. He is the winner of the TXCPA’s state-wide Outstanding Accounting Educator Award for large colleges in 2024.

He began his career in the assurance and consulting practices of Deloitte. After serving as a Consulting Partner at BDO, then the seventh largest global accounting firm, he co-founded a series of boutique consulting practices. His consulting work has taken him to Bolivia, Canada, Great Britain, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, the Middle East, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Vietnam, including corporate training activities with the national energy companies of Bolivia, Iraq, and Vietnam.

Earlier in his academic career, he taught for the Universities of Connecticut and Massachusetts in the U.S., Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and elsewhere. He has also presented his work at Dartmouth College, Deloitte University, Harvard Law School, Johns Hopkins University, and Yale University.

He has authored or co-authored more than thirty peer reviewed articles in academic and practitioner journals. In addition, he has authored numerous book chapters, newsletters, and podcasts for Wiley, Routledge, Henry Stewart, Kaplan, and others. He also authored a book on Business Planning and Entrepreneurship for Business Expert Press.

From 2014 to 2023, the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) ranked him in the All-Time Top 10% of global researchers. His top-ranked article, entitled “Libor Manipulation,” was published in the Journal of Banking and Finance several months before the global banking scandal exploded in the public business press.

Dr. Kraten has earned a PhD in Behavioral Accounting from the University of Connecticut, a MPPM in Public and Private Management from Yale University, and a BBA in Public Accounting from Baruch College of the City University of New York.

Michael Kraten, PhD, CPA
Michael Kraten, PhD, CPA