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Allan is a Director at Clearview where his primary responsibility is raising assets for clients from large institutional investors. Allan is based in Clearview's Scottsdale office.Allan Kaplan has extensive experience building and investing in companies focused on next-generation data communications, Internet infrastructure, services, and software. As a co-founder of three successful Internet Infrastructure companies and as a partner in a private venture fund, he has a proven track record in business development, Institutional Funding, and mergers and acquisitions. Allan has very strong contacts in the US institutional investment community. Mr. Kaplan attended Arizona State University. Allan was a founder of Primenet Services for the Internet, Inc., which later merged with and changed its name to GlobalCenter, Inc, whose investors included Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad, and Softbank Capital, and Global Village. He served GlobalCenter as Senior Vice President of Operations and served on its Board of Directors along with Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital and John Hummer of Hummer Winbad. GlobalCenter successfully managed the acquisition and integration of two additional companies: Voyager Networks and ISI Systems to later become a leader in web hosting. In 1998, GlobalCenter was purchased by Frontier Communications (NYSE: FRO) for $180 million and Allan was named Senior Vice President of Connectivity Services. Global Center was later sold to Exodus Communication for over $6 Billion dollars. Shortly after the sale of GlobalCenter, Allan co-founded Cocoon Capital, a private incubator and venture fund, which successfully launched: Entera, Inc., an Internet infrastructure company venture backed by ComVentures, Crescendo Ventures, and Spectrum Technology. Entera was sold to Cacheflow, Inc. (COMPX: CFLO) in Q4 2000 for $440 million dollars. Aerocast, a secure streaming media services company, which received $30 million in funding from Motorola Ventures, Liberty Media and Soros Fund Management. Limelight Networks, currently one of the nation’s leading digital distribution networks, for which Allan is co-founder and serves as Chairman of the Board. | 