Al is a 1980 graduate of Harvard University, where he met his wife Pat, now a professor emerita and retired associate provost at Plymouth State University. Al and Pat make their home in Concord, New Hampshire. They have a son in Brooklyn and a daughter in the Boston area, as well as two unbelievably adorable grandsons.

In his personal time Al is an avid reader, especially of history. In warm weather, he is an enthusiastic bicyclist, while in the winter he can be found doing pull-ups at the 6 a.m. boot camp at his local Y. In his 50s, he gained the distinction of joining the “4,000-Footer Club,” meaning that he successfully scaled all forty-eight 4,000-foot-high New Hampshire mountains — and he lived to tell about it, barely. And in 2024 he was named to the “NH 200” list of most influential business leaders in the state.