Alan Trefler

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Biography

• The son of a holocaust survivor, Alan Trefler worked at his father's small antique restoration company as a teen, before starting Pegasystems in 1983.
• He was 27 when he launched the software company, which focuses on streamlining business and enhancing customer engagement.
• The Waltham, Ma.-based business, which he took public in 1996, generated $1.5 billion in 2024 sales and employs over 5,000 people.
• Alan and his wife Pamela are founders of the Trefler Foundation, through which they have donated to public education and health care in Boston.
• In March 2020, Pegasystems launched a free app to help clients track Covid-19 among employees.
• In 1975, when Trefler was a sophomore computer science and economics double major at Dartmouth, he tied for first in the World Open Chess Tournament.
• In 2010, Pegasystems sponsored a chess fundraising event where Trefler faced off against chess titan Gary Kasparov and future world champion Magnus Carlsen.

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