Alan Philip James Manly OAM (born in 1950) is an Australian entrepreneur,[1] company director and published author.
After dropping out of year nine at Bacchus Marsh High School in the north-west of Victoria, Australia, Alan worked as a postman before securing an apprenticeship as a television repairman.
[2] For eight years, Alan worked at Digital Equipment Corporation first as a computer technician, then in sales and marketing.
He represented the industry before the Australian Senate supporting the introduction of government supervised trust accounts for student funds.
He is currently the Managing Director of Group Colleges Australia (GCA), a company that has raised public and private funding to develop distance education using the Internet.