User:Ahfdt/Alan Fleischmann

Alan H. Fleischmann is a co-founder, board member, and managing director of ImagineNations Group, a partnership-based global network that provides young entrepreneurs with financial resources, technologies, business/leadership coaching and an on-line portal (imagine-network.org) in emerging and frontier markets that connects mentors to entrepreneurs.

Fleischmann is also a Senior Counselor and director of Albright Stonebridge Group, the global strategy firm, co-founded with leaders and executives from across the private, public, and civil society sectors.

For several years, Fleischmann has been senior vice president of Penn Schoen & Berland Associates, the global strategic communications firm.

Fleischmann was Maryland State chief of staff to Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a staff director of the U.S. Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs, and served as a senior associate of JP Morgan Chase Bank.

During the historic period of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Fleischmann served as a policy aide in the German parliament, working for former German Chancellor Willy Brandt and his foundation for development and peace, while receiving a Bundestag Fellowship at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universität.

Fleischmann was a Lead member of the Obama Presidential Transition from 2008-2009, and in 2010, Fleischmann was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve as a Delegate to the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship.

Fleischmann is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Fleischmann was awarded an M.A. with honors from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he serves on its board. He received a B.A. and B.S. with honors from American University, where he was the valedictorian and student body president.

Fleischmann is married to Dafna Tapiero and is the father of two children.