Alison Tanner

• Senior Vice President of Corporate Development

  eDiets.com Inc

• Vice President, Director of Private Placements

  Granite Capital , LP

• Analyst and Portfolio Manager

  Fred Alger Management

• Director of Investor Relations and Financial Media Relations

  Sensormatic Electronics Corporation

• Board Member

  Enterprise Development Corporation

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Alison Tanner works with leaders of entrepreneurial companies and divisions to ensure success during critical transactions and business initiatives such as new business line launches, mergers, acquisitions and financings. Drawing upon her wide-ranging experience as both an investor and a senior corporate development executive, she steps in as a complement to a company’s full-time executive team to achieve desired results while allowing full-time management to focus on driving its existing business.

Alison has made investments in and completed financings totaling hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of public and private growth companies. She also has extensive experience executing the kinds of initiatives that propel companies forward more rapidly towards their strategic goals.

As Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Strategist for eDiets.com, Inc., a leading provider of online weight loss solutions, Alison led strategic planning, new business line development, mergers and acquisitions and strategic alliances. She implemented a paradigm-shifting diet licensing initiative that reached $30 million in revenue, launched the award-winning DeliciouslyYours portion-controlled nationwide fresh meal delivery service and accelerated the company’s entry into the corporate hosted services market through the acquisition of Nutrio.com.

Previously Alison spent thirteen years on Wall Street as an analyst and portfolio manager for companies including Salomon Brothers and Fred Alger Management. She then joined the successful turnaround team at Sensormatic Electronics Corporation, a global electronic security company, where she oversaw e-commerce and investor relations.

Alison has served as both a state and a national board member of AeA, the leading U.S. technology trade association, and is a founding member and board member of New World Angels, a Southeastern angel investor group. She serves on the board of the Enterprise Development Corporation of South Florida, a regional non-profit economic development organization that assists emerging science and technology companies, and the board of the South Florida chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum. A long-time resident of Palm Beach County, Florida, she is also a member of Leadership Palm Beach County, an organization that trains and promotes community leaders.