Pamela Craven CW'74, L'77

PAMELA CRAVEN CW’74, L’77 is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, & Secretary at Avaya Inc., a leading global provider of communications systems, applications and services for enterprises headquartered in New Jersey. 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 Avaya’s Global Contracts Management, Government Affairs and Corporate Security organizations. In addition, Craven serves as corporate secretary, one of Avaya’s two Co-Chief Compliance Officers and supports the Avaya Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Avaya, Craven was Vice President, Law and Secretary for Lucent Technologies Inc. In this position, she oversaw attorneys responsible for Lucent’s corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, and labor and employment practices. Previously, she practiced federal, state and international tax law at NCR Corporation and in private practice.
A native of Bloomfield, New Jersey, Craven is the Chair of the Community Advisory Board of New Jersey Network, the educational public television and radio network of New Jersey. She has also spoken at various programs related to continuing legal education and women in the legal profession. She is a member of the Board of Managers of the Law Alumni Association at Penn Law. Pamela and her husband, Bill, have two daughters, one of whom is a member of the Penn class of 2006.

Marcy Engel L'83

MARCY ENGEL L’83 is a Managing Director in the Global Fixed Income Division of Citigroup Inc.’s Global Corporate and Investment Bank (GCIB), where she is co-head of the Fixed Income Capital Products Group. That unit develops and structures new fixed income products for issuers and investors. She formerly served as General Counsel of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., which was then known as Salomon Smith Barney, and Managing Deputy General Counsel of the GCIB. Engel joined Salomon Brothers, Inc., a predecessor firm, as an attorney in 1987. Prior to that, she was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell.