Pam Allison is a product management and business strategy executive who leverages a deep understanding of consumer behavior, technology trends, artificial intelligence, and content consumption and creation to drive innovative products, partnerships, and services for leading Fortune 500s and startups. She is skilled at cultivating the needed key cross-industry relationships that inspire disruptive tech-rooted projects and set the stage for lucrative new business opportunities.
Pam most recently managed an innovation and strategy team at Verizon that developed solutions and products with commercial opportunities within sports and venues that leverage 5G and Edge Compute. Her responsibilities included defining opportunities, building strategy, developing product requirements, creating business models, developing proofs of concept to validate hypothesis.
Prior to her role at Verizon, Pam was the Executive Director of Innovation Strategy and Development at Warner Bros. She developed partnerships with leading technology companies to build proofs of concepts that explored how Warner Bros. can commercialize technologies in the future for content consumption and production. This included building out long-term strategies on how to future-proof the company. Her focus was on content and mobility including autonomous and connected cars, and 5G.
Prior to her role at Warner Bros., Pam served as the Director of Digital Products at the National Hot Rod Association, where she led the strategy and development of the new NHRA.com and managed the NHRA All Access SVOD streaming service and mobile strategy for all mobile games, virtual reality experiences and events. Prior to the NHRA, she managed digital media and mobile business strategy and development at the Disney New Technology Strategy Group, DIRECTV, and Movielink. Her consulting clients have included Disney, University of Southern California, Esri, a GIS software platform and others.
Pam holds bachelor’s degrees in Management Engineering from Claremont McKenna College and Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, as well as a masters degree in Computer Science and an MBA from UCLA.