Mr. Alton is a member of the boards of the AIDS Institute and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Oakland. He is also a member of the U.S. Government's Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, the advisory boards of UCSF Global Health Group, USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Pharmozyme, Inc., the Dean’s Advisory Council at Stanford Law School and the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science Advisory Board. In addition, he serves on Partners In Health’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Alton received a bachelor's degree in legal studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and holds a JD from Stanford University.
He is specialized in mergers and acquisitions, corporate partnerships and corporate finance transactions for healthcare and information technology companies.