 James C. "Jamie" Allen is a proven general manager and product development executive with the demonstrated ability to manage for top-line revenue growth and bottom-line profits. He has formed and led highly motivated teams who have delivered many successful products to the market place, including mobile applications, telecommunication systems and services, on-line CRM services, and fault tolerant computer systems. He has a strong record of entrepreneurship, participating in the founding of several companies, and leading other startup companies in various executive roles.
Jamie was a Vice President at Telcordia Technologies immediately prior to joining NSVG. At Telcordia he oversaw the merger and restructuring of several organizations to form the Service Delivery Solutions business unit. SDS provides IN platforms and real-time charging and policy systems to mobile operators worldwide, and real-time charging, policy and mobile data services as a managed service in the U.S. As general manager, Jamie positioned the business for sustained growth in fast growing mobile markets, including India and Brazil.
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. Previously he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Malibu Networks, a venture-backed startup developing fixed broadband wireless access systems.
Prior to Malibu, Jamie co-founded eCustomers. eCustomers developed the technology and business relationships to deliver highly targeted marketing to shoppers at ecommerce web sites using a combination of off-line direct marketing data and on-line behavioral data. This combination of off-line and on-line data is only becoming common ten years later. During this time, Jamie was actively involved in the industry privacy debates, and served on the Federal Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security.
At Tandem Computers Jamie was general manager of a business unit that developed intelligent networking and mobility management systems for worldwide telephone companies. Key customers included Motorola, BT Cellnet (now O2 UK), AT&T Wireless, Tele Danmark (now TDC), and Sprint. Under his leadership, the business unit’s revenues more than tripled in three years, taking the bottom line from breakeven to highly profitable. Jamie had a variety of other management and individual roles at Tandem, including leading major system programs that produced products which generating billions in revenue.
Jamie 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 joined NSVG fulltime in 2007.
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