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

Mike previously served as Professor of Accounting and Chair of Accounting, Economics, and Finance programs at Houston Baptist University. Earlier in his career, Mike taught at the Universities of Connecticut and Massachusetts in the US, at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and elsewhere. Mike has also prespented his work at Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, Johns Hopkins University, and Yale University.

Mike is the creator of an award-winning business case and educational game called “Save The Blue Frog”, which teaches the balancing of economic outcomes with social and environmental considerations.

Mike has authored or co-authored thirty peer reviewed articles in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the International Journal of Accounting, Research in Accounting Regulation, the CPA Journal, the Journal of Financial Planning, and elsewhere. He has authored more than five hundred blog posts and numerous book chapters, newsletters, and podcasts for Wiley, Routledge, Henry Stewart, Kaplan, and others. He has authored a book on Business Planning and Entrepreneurship for Business Expert Press.

Since 2014, the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has ranked Mike in the All-Time Top 10% of global researchers.

Education:

Michael Kraten, PhD, CPA

About McAlan

Allen Campbell, JD, MBA — Founder and CEO

Michael Kraten, PhD, CPA — Senior Accounting Advisor

Deep knowledge of accounting, complex business analysis and Sustainability/ESG. Director of Accounting Program Initiatives at the University of Houston, where he creates and teaches Sustainability/ESG content.