Allen Campbell — Founder and CEO
Allen is a leading light in Sustainability. He has a deep understanding of the theory and practice of ESG. He keeps an eye on emerging forces in the global business ecosystem. Expert in our new world order of mandates and expectations, Allen helps people acquire understanding and make sound strategic decisions. He is an effective communicator and skilled negotiator, adept at informing business leaders, investors and other stakeholders, and helping people “do ESG” well.
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 two magazine companies: American Visions, the official magazine of the African American Museums Association, and Marlin Magazine, about big game sport fishing. The most notable company he has created was Murex Corporation, which 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. SUDS became world famous in the medical war against AIDS. Murex became International Murex Technologies, which became a publicly held company, and was thereafter acquired by Abbott Labs.