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About McAlan

McAlan combines legal, accounting, economic, and capital-markets expertise to provide integrated judgment on sustainability decisions that affect enterprise value.

Our perspective reflects experience in:

  • Corporate governance and fiduciary oversight
  • Financial reporting and materiality
  • Economic and policy analysis
  • Capital markets and transaction dynamics
  • Operating leadership and strategic decision-making

We work directly with boards and C-suite executives.

Allen Campbell, JD (Columbia University Law School), MBA (University of Chicago), Attorney at Law

Founder and CEO

Extensive experience in law, entrepreneurship and finance. Founder, financier and chairman of biotechnology company that created the world’s first rapid diagnostic for AIDS, which became publicly traded and was acquired by Abbott Laboratories for $234 million. Formerly owner/co-owner of two successful magazines and award-winning investment research company. Broad high-level experience as attorney (business/antitrust law and litigation) with Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, as strategic consultant to president of Arthur D. Little international consulting firm, as head of the corporate finance department of a regional investment banking firm, and as member of corporate finance department of Bear Stearns.


Allen Campbell, the founder of McAlan

Michael Kraten, PhD (University of Connecticut) , MPPM (Yale University), CPA

Technical Expert regarding Sustainability and Resilience

Internationally recognized expert in sustainability accounting, financial reporting, and economic analysis. Extensive experience in emerging sustainability regulation, financial materiality, and economic implications of evolving policy and market expectations. Technical Expert for Sustainability and Resilience at PKF O’Connor Davies. More than twenty-five years of higher education teaching experience. Recently completed two-year term as Director of Accounting Program Initiatives at the University of Houston, where he focused on developing innovative approaches to sustainability and entrepreneurship. TXCPA Houston’s Outstanding CPA of the Year, 2025.

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