Bradley P. Allen

Bradley P. Allen is VP of Search and Semantic Technologies at Elsevier B.V.

Mr. Allen began his career as a member of the research staff at Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics Institute. As a senior member of the technical team at Inference Corporation he created CBR Express, one of the first case-based reasoning solutions for customer support. He was founder and CTO at Limbex Corporation, where he created WebCompass, an Internet search assistant that won Best Of Show at COMDEX Fall '95.

Mr. Allen was also founder of TriVida Corporation, a Web site personalization application services provider, serving as CTO until TriVida's acquisition by Be Free, Inc. in 2000; founder and CTO of Siderean Software, a vendor of Semantic Web solutions for information access and discovery; and a director of development at Symantec Corporation, where he managed a team that delivered the Quorum next-generation security technology as part of the 2010 Norton security product suite.

Mr. Allen earned a BS in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982, and has been awarded five U.S. patents.