Pamela Lenehan, President

Pam Lenehan, President, is a senior executive with broad strategic and financial experience in corporate, investment banking, and public board environments.

Business Experience
Pam was Chief Financial Officer of a high technology start-up which she joined before initial product shipment and left when the company was at a $30 million run rate. While Pam was at the company she led a team that raised nearly $80 million in private equity, did a major acquisition, filed its IPO, and subsequently downsized the company. She was responsible for the Finance, Legal, Human Resources, and Information Technology departments.

Previously Pam was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Treasurer of Oak Industries, a $500 million NYSE-listed manufacturer of telecommunications components. Oak doubled in size while Pam was there through acquisitions and internal growth and was sold to Corning, Inc. for $2 billion. At Oak, Pam managed the Corporate Development and Treasury staffs, which reviewed more than 100 acquisition candidates annually, raised $300 million in a bank credit facility and a $100 million public convertible debenture, as well as responsibility for the web site and annual reports.

Pam spent 20 years in financial services, 14 at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York and Boston where she was a Managing Director in Investment Banking, completing over $6.5 billion in mergers and acquisitions and raising more than $4 billion in public and private equity and debt for technology companies ranging in size from start-ups to $14 billion in revenue. Pam started her career at Chase Manhattan Bank where she built a $2 billion loan portfolio lending money to growing technology companies.

Board Experience
Pam is a director, chair of the compensation committee and previously served on the audit and CEO search committees of Spartech Corporation, a $1.5 billion NYSE listed manufacturer of engineered plastic sheet and polymeric compounds. She is also a director, chair of the compensation committee and member of the audit committee of Monotype Imaging, a $100 million NASDAQ listed software company that provides type solutions. Pam previously spent over six years on the board of Avid Technology, a $900 million NASDAQ listed video and audio editing software company where she variously served as chair of the board, chair of the audit committee, and as a member of the compensation and CEO search committees. She is also on the advisory board of Nina McLemore, a private woman-owned fashion business.

Other Activities
Pam is an active member of Golden Seeds, an angel group that invests in women-owned early stage companies. She is on the board, chair of the strategic planning committee and a member of the executive committee of The Center for Women & Enterprise, a non-profit with the mission of empowering women to become economically self-sufficient through entrepreneurship. Pam is also on the finance committee of City Year, a non-profit that provides young people a full year of community service in 14 sites nationwide. As a member of the Executive Council Steering Committee for Women's Cancers Program at Dana-Farber, Pam helps raise money for early stage cancer research. She is a member of Financial Executives International, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the New England Chapter of Women Corporate Directors and The Boston Club, an organization for professional and executive women.

Education
Pam has a BA in Mathematical Economics, Cum Laude and with Honors, and a MA in Economics from Brown University.