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James C. "Jamie" Allen has been an advisor to NetService Ventures Group since 2003, and served on the Board of Directors of MyDigitalLife, Inc., a NSVG incubated company. He became a NSVG Sr. Vice President in 2007.
Jamie is a proven general management and product development executive with the demonstrated ability to manage for top-line revenue growth and bottom-line profits. He is a leader with a record of accomplishment building and leading highly motivated teams who deliver successful products to the market place. Over the past 20 years, Jamie has led businesses and product groups delivering telecommunication systems and services, fault tolerant computer systems, and on-line CRM services. Jamie has a strong record of entrepreneurship in hi-tech companies, participating in the founding of several, and leading others startup companies in various executive roles.
Immediately prior to joining NetService Ventures Group Jamie was Vice President of Telcordia Technologies' Service Delivery Solutions business unit, a leading provider of real-time charging and policy solutions to telecom service providers worldwide. He was responsible for Product Management, Marketing, Business Development and System Engineering for this $100 million-plus business. He was also General Manager of the Hosted Solutions business unit, the dominate U.S. Software-as-a-Service provider of real-time charging and policy and mobile data services for mobile virtual network operators (MVNO).
Prior to Telcordia Jamie founded UniFone, a converged fixed-mobile telephone service provider. UniFone combined VoIP-over-WiFi and cellular to provide a single service that replaced both residential fixed-line and cellular mobile service. He created the company concept; raised $25 million in venture capital; recruited and led the founding team; co-authored the business plan; and led the creation of the architecture, high-level design, and technology selection.
Previously Jamie served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Malibu Networks, a venture-backed startup developing fixed broadband wireless access systems. He created a strategy to leverage Malibu's core QoS and bandwidth management technology by bringing it to market on an 802.11-based platform. Jamie developed the new business plan and led the reorganization of the company, and managed delivery of Malibu's first product.
Prior to Malibu Jamie co-founded eCustomers, a venture-backed startup providing real-time marketing services to on-line (ecommerce) retailers. At eCustomers, he co-authored the business plan and participated in raising two rounds of venture capital funding. Jamie managed the product marketing, product development, customer support and IT functions, and negotiated IT infrastructure acquisitions. Jamie personally sold the company's first revenue customer. During this timeframe, on-line privacy emerged as a major national issue. Jamie became very active in the privacy debates, serving on the FTC Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security, and participating in a number of panel discussions on privacy.
Jamie spent 16 years at Tandem Computers, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the telecommunications business unit. Under his leadership, the business unit tripled its revenue and profitability. Key wins under his leadership included the nationwide home-location-registers used by AT&T Wireless Services, Rogers Cantel, BT-Cellnet and Tu-Ka Cellular. Previously, he led major technological advances in Tandem's system product line including the evolution from Tandem's 16-bit proprietary CISC architecture to a commodity 32-bit RISC based architecture, and Tandem's first use of fiber optic and VLSI technology.
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