Allen Michels
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Allen Michels (born c. 1941){{cite news|last1=Hayes|first1=Thomas C.|title=CONVERGENT'S NEW CHALLENGE|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/business/convergent-s-new-challenge.html|accessdate=20 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=1984}} is a business executive and founder of Convergent Technologies and The Dana Group.
Allen continued on in consulting roles through the 90s, and eventually founded a healthcare startup.
Career
Prior to him co-founding Convergent, Michels held management positions for Digital Equipment Corporation and Intel.{{cite news|last1=Shea|first1=Tom|title=The Industry Workhorse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eC4EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Allen+Michels%22+%2B+Intel&pg=PA44|accessdate=15 November 2017|publisher=InfoWorld|date=23 July 1984}} Michels co-founded Convergent Technologies in 1979.{{cite news|last1=McEnaney|first1=Maura|title=Michels sees evolving niche for personal supercomputer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvU799ixIbcC&q=%22Convergent+Technologies%22+%2B+%22Allen+Michels%22&pg=PA115|accessdate=15 November 2017|publisher=Computer World|date=20 October 1986}} The company made computer hardware and was purchased by Unisys in 1988.{{cite news|last1=Pollack|first1=Andrew|title=Company News - Unisys Says It Will Buy Convergent|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/11/business/company-news-unisys-says-it-will-buy-convergent.html|accessdate=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=11 August 1988}} He served as the CEO of the company until 1985 when he and other executives left to form The Dana Group (Dana Computer). The Dana Group would be renamed Ardent Computer in 1987 due to another company already having the name Dana Computer. Ardent built Titan graphics workstations.{{cite book|last1=Peddie|first1=Jon|title=The History of Visual Magic in Computers: How Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR|date=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9781447149323|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6a8_AAAAQBAJ&q=%22dana%22+%2B+%22Ardent%22&pg=PA163|accessdate=15 November 2017}}
Michels came out of retirement in 1993 to join Dean Snow as a founder of Macinstitute.{{cite news|last1=Lorek|first1=L.A.|title=2 Pros Polish Apple Users at Macinstitute|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-06-28/business/9301210188_1_apple-computers-desktop-publishing-apple-and-ibm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517115704/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-06-28/business/9301210188_1_apple-computers-desktop-publishing-apple-and-ibm|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 17, 2017|accessdate=15 November 2017|publisher=Sun Sentinel|date=28 June 1993}}
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