Compassion International CEO and leadership

Pam is passionate about bringing hope to children in need and empowering women to realize their full potential and she brings to Compassion extensive experience as a technology transformation leader focused on business strategy execution. Prior to joining Compassion, Pam served with AT&T for 39 years in a variety of roles. During her last 17 years with them, she served as the vice president of IT integration, strategy and planning, then chief information officer and finally president of technology development, where she was responsible for the development and global operation of the 2,000 applications that support AT&T’s consumer and enterprise businesses, as well as the platforms supporting human resources, finance, supply chain and network operations. Pam's career experiences include leading teams through the exclusive AT&T iPhone launch and 11 subsequent releases as well as multiple large-scale systems integration challenges in mergers between AT&T, DirectTV, Cingular and BellSouth Cellular — achieving over $50 billion in synergies. Her journey was unique in that her first role at AT&T was that of assistant to an assistant in the IT department. She didn’t initially intend to lead their entire IT operation, but that was clearly God’s plan as she continued to excel and was given greater and greater responsibilities. Pam serves on the board of directors for The Honey Baked Ham Company and Brightstar Group Holdings and has earned many distinguished awards, including the 2018 Dallas Super Global CIO of the Year; was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2015; and ranked in CIO Magazine’s top 100 CIOs for multiple years running. She completed the information technology management program at Georgia Institute of Technology, has an Associate of Science degree from Roane State Community College, and executive training from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Long ago, God put a desire on Pam's heart to help children in need locally and afar. A decade before officially joining Compassion's workforce, Pam volunteered and sponsored children with Compassion as well as a former missions organization that supported children in some of Guatemala’s most dangerous areas. She’s humbled by the opportunity to now live out that calling full time in this role as Compassion International’s first chief information officer. Pam and her husband Dean live in Tennessee and have two adult sons.

Ken Calwell has served as our President since June 2011 and as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board since December 31, 2011. Mr. Calwell has extensive experience in the limited service restaurant industry. Before joining Papa Murphy, Mr. Calwell served as the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Food Innovation Officer of Wendy’s International from July 2008 to June 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Calwell served in various roles at Domino’s Pizza, Inc. including Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development, from June 2001 to May 2008. Before joining Domino’s Pizza, Inc., he served as the Vice President of New Product Development at Wendy’s International, Inc. from October 1998 to June 2001. Mr. Calwell also served as the Senior Director of Marketing at Frito Lay, Inc. (PepsiCo) from October 1996 to October 1998 and in roles of increasing responsibility at Pizza Hut starting as Associate Marketing Manager in September 1988 to Senior Director of Marketing in October 1996.