Allan Cohen

Bio

Allan Cohen focuses on the chemistry-enabled sector. He was previously a managing director at First Analysis coordinating research and investment in selected areas of the chemistry-enabled sector. Prior to joining First Analysis in 1992 and beginning in 1988, he established specialty chemicals/materials coverage at Kemper Securities Inc. Earlier, he spent 13 years in the specialty chemicals industry working for Valspar Corp., Sherwin-Williams Co., and Champion International Corp. in new business development, corporate planning, and chemical research. He earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Northwestern University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo.