Scholar Profile

Allan Sahagun

Product Design

Biography

Allan Sahagun (he/him) is the Founder & CEO of Elumen, a Human Dynamics AI venture currently in private beta and recruiting enterprise design partners for the next cohort. Elumen builds agentic systems that surface the hidden dimensions of workplace communication — tone, intent, culture, hierarchy, and subtext — to help organizations align impact with intent at scale.

Allan brings over 15 years of product, design, and AI leadership across global teams in the U.S., Japan, Germany, and France. Most recently, he served as a senior executive at Kyocera, leading a ~150-person global innovation organization across North America, Japan, and Europe, where he drove AI strategy, led post-merger integrations, and helped build and operate a $60M corporate venture fund. A lifelong entrepreneur — Allan launched his first company from his Harvard dorm room — he is a named inventor on multiple patents and has advised both corporate leaders and early-stage founders on building products that integrate technical rigor with deep human insight.

Allan's work sits at the intersection of human-centered design, emerging AI, and organizational intelligence — grounded in systems thinking and cross-cultural leadership shaped by nearly a decade inside a Japanese multinational. He is particularly focused on how technology can surface misalignment early, strengthen trust, and enable more effective collaboration in the distributed, multicultural, AI-accelerated workplaces we now operate in.

A sought-after speaker, Allan has addressed global leaders, executives, and policymakers on innovation, inclusion, and the future of human-centered AI. A proud Milken Scholar and former National Chairperson of the Milken Scholars Alumni Association, he lives in Oakland, California with his husband, Benjamin.

High school:  Don Bosco Technical High School

Degrees

News and Highlights

05/11/2011 Allan Sahagun (MS '05)

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.