FIG. 5 THE APPLICANT
Alan started as an electronics and telecommunications engineer and filed his first patents — on mobile devices and mobility technology — before he ever wrote a product roadmap. The two decades since have been spent turning that same instinct — build the smallest thing that proves the point — into a product-leadership discipline that has run inside KPMG's banking practice in Hong Kong, Walmart and Sam's Club in Mexico, a robotics and automation practice built with Brain Corp, Mexico's first BNPL lender, and now a private healthcare platform.
"A working prototype doesn't settle much on its own anymore. AI has mostly answered whether something can be built — the harder question, and the one worth a board's time, is whether it's worth building at all."
That's the lens he brings to every roadmap review: fewer proofs of concept, more proof of value, and a bias toward decisions the business can actually act on. It's also the lens behind his MIT Chief Product Officer certification, completed in 2025.