Dr. Alan B. Salisbury is a management consultant in the Information Technology industry. He recently stepped down as Chairman of the U.S. subsidiary of Learning Tree International (NASDAQ: LTRE), the leading independent world-wide provider of advanced information technology and technical management training. He served as Learning Tree’s president of US Operations from 1993 through 1999, growing the business from $19M to just under $100M in annual revenue and was part of the management team that led Learning Tree through its successful public offering. In 1993, he completed a two year assignment as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), the nation’s premier research and development consortium owned by 22 companies. Prior to joining MCC, he served as President of Contel Technology Center, the advanced technology research and development organization serving Contel Corporation, the nation's third largest independent telephone company prior to its acquisition in 1991 by GTE. In these R&D assignments, Dr. Salisbury was instrumental in initiating and directing advanced technology programs which strongly supported real-world business applications of the client companies, including leading edge work in broadband services and electronic commerce.



Dr. Salisbury joined Contel in 1987, after retiring from the U.S. Army where he was a Major General, and commanded the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC), a world-wide organization of more than 4500 computer scientists, communications and systems engineers responsible for the development, acquisition, installation and support of state-of-the-art information systems. In earlier assignments, he was program manager for several major Army and Air Force computer-based command and control systems and intelligence systems, as well as the first director of the Center for Tactical Computer Sciences (CENTACS), the Army’s computer systems research and development laboratory. His decorations include two Bronze Star medals and the Distinguished Service Medal.



Dr. Salisbury holds MS and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering and computer science, and is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. He is the author of numerous technical and management papers, as well as Microprogrammable Computer Architectures, a widely adopted computer architecture reference book. Dr. Salisbury was also founding editor of the Journal of Systems and Software. He served on the 1998 Defense Science Board Task Force on the Year 2000 ("Y2K") Problem, and chaired the earlier DSB Task Force on Military Personnel Information Systems. He currently serves as chairman of Avilar Technologies, an e-Learning infrastructure and services company, and serves on the Board of Directors of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading supplier of database, Internet, business intelligence, and enterprise software and tools. He recently completed 14 years of service on the Board of Visitors of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a founder and president of the recently established Center for National Software Studies, a public policy "think tank." He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, as well as the Board of Trustees of Mitretek Systems, a not-for-profit information technology services corporation. Previously, he completed a 10 year stint as a director of USAA, a $6 Billion Fortune 200 insurance and financial services company. Dr. Salisbury is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Society of the Sigma Xi, and the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.