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Pamela Craven is Chief Administrative Officer of Avaya. Avaya is a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services.
Craven is responsible for all legal services at Avaya, including its commercial practice; corporate, securities, compliance, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions practices; labor, employment and employee benefits law; litigation; and intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and licensing. She is in charge of Global Contracts Management, Government Affairs Corporate Security organizations for Avaya. In addition, she serves as corporate secretary, one of the company's two Co-Chief Compliance Officers and supports the Avaya Board of Directors.
Previously, Craven was vice president, Law and corporate secretary for Lucent Technologies. Craven joined AT&T in 1992 following AT&T's acquisition of NCR Corporation, where she was assistant general counsel and assistant secretary. She joined Lucent directly from AT&T as part of the 1996 spin-off. For a number of years, she was a tax attorney in private practice and at NCR.
She earned a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In addition, she earned a Master of Laws from New York University School of Law in Taxation.
Craven, a native of Bloomfield, New Jersey, is the Chair of the Community Advisory Board of New Jersey Network and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and of the Board of Managers of the University of Pennsylvania Law Alumni Association. | 