Alan Gaines

Alan Gaines (Advisory Board), Chairman/CEO and  founder of ALG Corp., is a globally respected investment banker, advisor, and energy entrepreneur with a career spanning over 200 capital market transactions and more than $100 billion raised in debt and equity. He specializes in upstream fossil fuels, helium development, and independent power generation, with expertise in scaled capital formation, M&A, restructuring, oil & gas engineering, legal interface, and corporate governance. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and an authority on Board protocol and governance best practices. 

Mr. Gaines founded Dune Energy, serving as Chairman from 2001 to 2010, where he led the $540 million acquisition of Goldking Energy Corp. He co-founded Gaines, Berland Inc., a full-service energy investment bank, and sold his stake in 1998. From 1984 to 2006, he acted as Chief Strategic and Diligence Advisor to financier Carl C. Icahn, analyzing and managing major equity and debt energy investments in companies such as Gulf Oil, Texaco, Marathon Oil, and Pennzoil.Widely quoted in global media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Financial Times, Mr. Gaines holds a BBA in Finance from Baruch College and an MBA (Valedictorian) from Hofstra University’s Zarb School of Business.