Alan Trefler
$4.6B
Born
Mar 10, 1956
Age
69
Source of Wealth
Software
Residence
Brookline, Massachusetts
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Dartmouth College
- 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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