Pamela F. Lenehan

Pam Lenehan spent 21 years on Wall Street and was a managing director in Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston, where she did mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financing for public and private technology companies. She went to the corporate side where she was SVP Corporate Development and Treasurer of Oak Industries which was sold to Corning, and then became CFO of a high-tech start-up.

She is on the board of directors of two companies with publicly-traded equity, Spartech Corporation and Monotype Imaging, and on the board of one company with publicly-traded debt, National Mentor Holdings. She has chaired both compensation and audit committees. She is on the advisory board of Nina McLemore, a woman-owned fashion business. Pam is author of the book, “What You Don’t Know and Your Boss Won’t Tell You: Advice from Senior Female Executives on What You Need to Succeed.”

In addition to being on the board of the Center for Women & Enterprise, Pam is also on the board of The Wellesley Centers for Women, the Women’s Leadership Counsel of Brown University, and the Executive Council of the Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers at Dana-Farber. She has BA in Mathematical Economics and a MA in Economics from Brown University. She and her husband Dr. Lawrence F. Geuss have four grown children and live in Needham.

Why CWE? I came in as a coach on the venture side and was immediately impressed by the professionalism of the staff and the leadership team. CWE is very serious about its mission to provide women with all the skills necessary to be successful in starting and growing a business. I especially appreciate CWE’s focus on business planning and financial competence, two areas I believe are critically important to achieving long term goals. As a single parent for more than a decade, I also relate to the struggle so many of CWE’s clients have to make a better life for their families. I feel it is a privilege to be associated with the organization.