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. After forty-three years in New Hampshire, Al and Pat recently relocated to Arlington, Massachusetts, where they are living near their daughter and their two oldest grandsons. Al and Pat also have a son, and a third adorable grandson, in Brooklyn.

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 gym. 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.