Allan lives and breathes technology for the enterprise and brings more than 12 years experience of running a successful R&D group to Tideway. Prior to joining Tideway, he was AVP of Development at Peregrine Systems where he was responsible for bringing together two acquired products and deliver them as a unified product suite that was released as Enterprise Discovery. In late 2005, Peregrine Systems was acquired by Hewlett-Packard and Allan played a key role in the pre-acquisition product and technology roadmap planning effort. Before joining Peregrine, Allan worked in Denmark where he co-founded Ibsen Photonics and later worked for Maersk Data.