HBS Club of Maine

Alan Caron is founder of Envision Maine, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank that was created in the fall of 2009 to address the major challenges and opportunities facing Maine. Envision Maine's first report, tentatively entitled "Reinventing Maine Government: 'Creating a sustainable government -- and a stronger economy -- in an era of shrinking resources'" is scheduled to be released in late April 2010. The report will look at what Maine can do over the next 10 years to replace its overlapping and sometimes inefficient government with new, more modern and more streamlined structures and operations.

Previously, Alan was the founder and President of GrowSmart Maine, which was responsible for enlisting the Brookings Institution to come to Maine and to produce their landmark report Charting Maine's Future, in 2006.

Alan is a Maine native with over 30 years of experience as a small business owner, community volunteer, consultant, strategist and writer who has worked on many issues facing Maine.