Dean Alford

Alford graduated from Walker High School, which has since been renamed McNair High School, in DeKalb County in 1971. He then attended Georgia Tech, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1976 and also served as the Chapter President of Beta Theta Pi (Gamma Eta Chapter).

Alford founded A&C Enercom in 1978. He has served as the president and CEO of Allied Energy Services, LLC since 2000.[5]

From 1983 until 1993, Alford was a five-term member of the General Assembly in Georgia. Alford represented the 57th district, post 3,[6] and served as chairman of the Energy Subcommittee, chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Oversight Committee, and as chairman of the DeKalb and Rockdale County Legislative Delegation.

• Georgia Technology Authority: Alford was sworn in 1999 by Governor Roy Barnes as member of the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) and served in this capacity until 2003. GTA is responsible for all aspects of technology procurement and policy for the State of Georgia.
• Georgia State Board of Education: Served as a member from September 2003 to December 2006.
• Governor's Education Finance Task Force: Appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to Chair the Governor's Education Finance Task Force. The Task Force has been charged with the task of developing a new funding formula for the K-12 system of Georgia.[7]
• Department of Technical and Adult Education: Appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to serve on the board of directors in January 2007.
• Member of the Georgia Board of Regents from 2012 until he resigned in 2019 amid a state investigation into allegations of racketeering, forgery of a state employee’s signatures and filing fraudulent invoices to show account collectibles of $2,200,000 in taxpayer and other company's funds for his company, Allied Energy Services, LLC., to sell the false collectibles at a discount to Versant, a collectibles purchaser.[8][4]

It was reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution on October 3, 2019, that the Attorney General of Georgia and Georgia Bureau of Investigation issued arrest warrants for Alford on suspected racketeering and criminal attempt to commit theft by taking charges. It is alleged that Alford created fraudulent invoice acknowledgement forms, dated Sept. 24, to submit to Versant, a financial services company that buys accounts receivable at a discount, state officials said. One document is alleged to have falsely asserted that the University of Georgia should pay Versant $487,982.88 to satisfy a debt owed to Alford’s own company, Allied Energy Services, LLC, located in Rockdale County. Alford allegedly forged a university employee’s signatures on the document. Alford is alleged to have also perpetrated further receivables fraud involving Georgia Military College, Synovus and Inman Solar Inc. to obtain a total of about $2,200,000 for his Allied Energy Services company.[9][4] Don Waters, Chairman of the Georgia Board of Regents, related that “The allegations brought against Dean Alford, who resigned from the Board today, are shocking and deeply upsetting. We will continue assisting law enforcement in any capacity necessary throughout the investigation.”[9]

Alford helped start the Miracle League, an organization that provides baseball fields for children with mental and physical disabilities, creating more than 240 baseball fields in the U.S. and Canada.[10]
Alford’s wife, Debbie Dlugolenski Alford, on October 3, 2019, said that she was planning to file for divorce.[10]