Alan Trefler

Alan N. Trefler is an American businessman and chess master best known as the chief executive officer of Pegasystems, a multinational software company he founded in 1983.

• The son of a holocaust survivor, Alan Trefler used to work as a teen at his father’s small antique restoration 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 went public in 1996 and now brings in more than $890 million in annual revenue and employs more than 4,900 people.
• Alan and his wife Pamela are founders of the Trefler Foundation, through which they have donated to public education and health care in Boston.