Pamela F. Lenehan, President of Ridge Hill Consulting, a strategy consulting firm, is a senior executive with broad strategic and financial experience in corporate, investment banking, and public board environments.

Board Experience

Pam is a director and chair of the compensation committee, and previously served on the audit, risk management and CEO search committees of Spartech Corporation, a $1 billion NYSE listed manufacturer of plastic sheet and 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 is a director and member of the audit committee of American Superconductor, a $300 million NASDAQ listed power technologies company. She is a director and chair of the audit committee of National Mentor Holding, a $1 billion company that provides services to individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities, which has private equity and public debt. 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 a member of the compensation and CEO search committees. She holds an Advanced Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors.

Business Experience

Pam was Chief Financial Officer of Convergent Networks, 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 the team 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 reported to the CEO and managed the Corporate Development and Treasury staffs, which reviewed more than 100 acquisition candidates annually, raised $300 million in bank credit facilities and a $100 million public convertible debenture, and had 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.

Education

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

Community

Pam Lenehan spends a significant amount of her time helping non-profit organizations, focusing on empowering and supporting women.

The Center for Women & Enterprise’s mission is to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and to prosper through business and entrepreneurship. CWE has served over 23,000 entrepreneurs through education, training, technical assistance, women’s business enterprise certification, and access to both debt and equity capital. www.cweonline.org

Wellesley Centers for Women is an influential research institute that has a goal of generating knowledge that can lead to positive social change for women, children and families. Topics of inquiry have included: Educational Equity; Work, Family and Society; Gender Violence; and Child and Adolescent Development. http://www.wcwonline.org/

Dana-Farber Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers Executive Council’s mission is to educate women about breast and gynecologic cancers and raise funds to accelerate cutting-edge research.  Money raised by the council provides seed funding to support research in the initial stage when projects are often not eligible for funding from traditional sources. The resulting data can then be leveraged to obtain federal funding and other large grants to support the work underway. http://www.dana-farber.org/how/wcp-executive-council/default.html

Brown University Women’s Leadership Council seeks to create strong, regional networks of Brown women committed to supporting the University, empower and mentor younger generations of Brown women, and strengthen ties and communication between and among women and the University community. http://www.brown.edu/Administration/WLC/about/index.html