Allan is an engineer and commercial leader working at the intersection of energy technology, manufacturing, and scale in frontier markets.

His career has centered on designing, deploying, and scaling energy systems across Sub Saharan Africa and Asia—regions where unreliable grids, extreme heat, and limited infrastructure demand fundamentally different engineering approaches. He combines hardware engineering, systems thinking, and commercial pragmatism to build solutions that work under resource constrained environments.

At Schneider Electric, Allan managed a broad energy portfolio across East Africa, spanning low voltage electrical distribution systems, switchgear, and containerized microgrids for rapid deployment. He also supported geothermal power plants in Kenya, helping address reliability and optimization challenges in baseload renewable generation.

At Sun King, he led the commercialization of solar home systems and hybrid inverter battery platforms across 40+ countries, coordinating teams in China, India, Kenya, and Nigeria to deliver solar plus storage systems for communities without reliable grid access.

At Shell Foundation, Allan now works on the financing and commercialization side—helping hardware manufacturers, portfolio companies, and investors understand the cost engineering and manufacturing strategies required to scale clean energy solutions across Sub Saharan Africa and India. His focus areas include productive use energy equipment and post harvest preservation technologies that improve livelihoods while reducing energy demand and emissions.

Allan’s interest in XPRIZE’s Energy + Climate + Nature domain is grounded in a belief that the most transformative climate solutions may not require more energy, but smarter use of passive systems and context appropriate technologies. His work consistently aims to design systems that remain reliable under infrastructure stress and to reduce complexity in ways that accelerate adoption.