Will Allen

Mr. Will Allen has an authentic style of leadership, honed from years of team sports and business; combined with an innate sense for people, motivation drivers and collaboration, which he leverages to identify distinct qualities of leadership and keen recognition for strategy execution. Mr. Allen is dedicated, humble and selfless in his work. He is known as a go-to problem solver, connecting the right resources to optimize solutions that will mitigate risk and ultimately help companies better serve their customers and stakeholder communities. Mr. Allen has over a decade of experience as a business leader, investor, non-profit founder and professional athlete managing high-performing teams and producing outsized returns on investments. Mr. Allen has led investments, advised companies and up-starts on market growth strategy, business analytics, facilitation of strategic partnerships, and leadership development. Mr. Allen’s direct leadership experience includes serving on a 10-county region economic development organization, a $26B multi- state healthcare organization, where he serves on the risk committee, he serves as a member on a mid- size foundation’s investment committee, also Pennsylvania’s workforce investment board and an independent director at a pre-IPO tech company. In his current role, Mr. Allen is a founding partner at Magarac Venture Partners (MVP), an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in market-defining technology companies. As a founding partner, Mr. Allen brings strategic creativity and analytic rigor to help scale portfolio companies for high performance. In addition, he leads the design and integration of the firm’s Inclusion investing initiatives by establishing the firm’s financial commitment of 33% of AUM to diverse entrepreneurs and architecting the firms term sheet inclusive hiring policy.