Alan G. Spoon (born June 4, 1951) is a business executive who left the
Washington Post Company after 18 years, his final position being president and chief operating officer, to become a general partner at
Polaris Ventures
Polaris Partners is a venture capital firm active in the field of healthcare and biotechnology companies. The company has offices in Boston, Massachusetts, New York, NY and San Francisco, California.
History
Polaris Partners was founded in 1996 ...
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Spoon served as Chief Operating Officer and a director of The Washington Post Company from March 1991 through May 2000 and President from September 1993 until May 2000.
At Polaris, he was General Partner and Partner Emeritus from 2011 to 2018 and Managing General Partner from 2000 to 2010. He became a director of
IAC in February 2003.
Spoon graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in 1973.
References
Living people
1951 births
American chief operating officers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
The Washington Post people
IAC (company) people
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