Alan Trefler
Brookline, Massachusetts
Associate in Arts/Science, Dartmouth College
United States
software, Self Made
$3,100,000,000
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#1008 Billionaires 2019
#328 Forbes 400 2018
The son of a holocaust survivor, Alan Trefler used to work as a teen at his father's small furniture repair business.In 1983, at age 27, he started Pegasystems, a software company that focuses on streamlining business and enhancing customer engagement. The Cambridge, Ma.-based company, which went public in 1996, now brings in more than $890 million in revenue and employs more than 4,600 people.Alan and his wife Pamela are founders of the Trefler Foundation, through which they have donated to public education and youth development in Boston.
In 1975, when Trefler was a sophomore and computer science and economics double major at Dartmouth College, he won 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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