Young, Alan

Alan is a technology executive with over 30 years of experience across the telecoms, financial services; and media and entertainment sectors. This includes extensive experience leading multi-functional teams working with global customers and suppliers in businesses ranging from large corporations to start-up ventures. He has developed and introduced new technologies into the business environment many times in his career. 

Alan is currently the CTO at Encompass Digital Media, a global managed services provider for the world’s leading media companies. In that role he is responsible for leading Encompass’ technology selection and implementation. Prior to that he was CTO at LTN where he led the development of technology enabling universal addressable TV across connected TVs, set top boxes and server-side ad insertion. Alan has also previously held senior engineering and technology roles at Encompass, SES, Citibank, Viacom and British Telecom.

Alan holds a Masters in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York in the U.K.  He is a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (F.I.E.T). He is a proven innovator and problem solver as the holder of five patents.