Scholar Profile
Allan Sahagun
Product Design
Biography
Allan is Head of Product at KYOCERA Document Solutions Development America, leading both Product Management & UX groups. Over the last 5 years, Allan has led an Agile transformation of the organization while overhauling the product portfolio, launching 10+ new offerings to market. In that time, Allan has been granted five patents with two more pending--all in enterprise software. Prior to his work at KYOCERA, Allan was a serial entrepreneur, founding four companies and doing business across four continents. In 2006 Allan co-founded his first enterprise software company from his dorm at Harvard University, with his brother. As COO Allan led all product design and strategy in addition to overseeing human resources, administration, and marketing functions for the company. While still at Harvard, Allan was recognized by Bloomberg Businessweek’s “25 under 25” and by the Boston Globe as one of the “Best of the New.” After attracting venture funding, and profitably scaling the company to 50+ employees Allan and his brother successfully exited the firm in 2011.Allan and his partner Benjamin, make their home in beautiful, downtown Oakland, California.
High school: Don Bosco Technical High School
Degrees
| College | Year | Degree |
|---|---|---|
Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA |
0 | A.B. Visual and Environmental Studies |
News and Highlights
New leadership. Allan Sahagun, MS ’05, has taken over for Kim Foo Chow, MS ’96, as the National Chairman of the Milken Scholars Alumni Association. Kim Foo did an outstanding job during his term and Allan will only continue the trend.