LightBox CEO and leadership

Amanda D. H. Allen is the chief financial officer and a member of the executive committee at LightBox, where she is responsible for global accounting, finance, tax, and treasury functions. She is focused on building a scalable and sustainable platform for LightBox’s growth by integrating acquisitions, implementing an enterprise resource planning system, launching an automated software-as-a-service key performance indicator, and consolidating and optimizing treasury platforms. She leads the company’s strategic planning, annual operating planning, and capital allocation processes and evaluates merger and acquisition opportunities. Previously, Ms. Allen was the chief financial officer at High Ridge Brands. Before that, she held strategy and corporate finance roles at large multinationals such as PepsiCo and small and medium-sized private equity backed companies. She began her career in investment banking at UBS. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University and a master of business administration degree from the New York University Stern School of Business.

Dan Gottlieb is CSO at EDR. He leads the execution and refinement of EDR’s strategic plan to inform and guide the next chapter of EDR’s growth. Prior to joining EDR, Dan was COO at the New York-based commercial real estate (CRE) technology and data firm Trepp LLC.

I’ve worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years in a variety of positions in general management, technology, product development, sales and business development. I’ve led diverse teams covering a range of disciplines in every corner of the world.

Today, I’m Global Head of Desktop (Eikon) in the Financial & Risk division at Thomson Reuters. I’m responsible for all product strategy, product development, design and user experience for Thomson Reuters Eikon and all other desktop/mobile products, including Accelus and Thomson ONE. My team of over 1,200 employees operates 24x7 time zone coverage in over 35 Thomson Reuters locations. I’m regularly on the road evangelizing our business and platform strategy with customers, partners and colleagues.

I joined Thomson Reuters in November 2008 after serving as Managing Director of the Equities business at Tradeweb, where I was responsible for the equities electronic trading assets of the Autex franchise.

Before Tradeweb, I headed up the institutional equities business within Thomson Financial. I joined Thomson Financial in the fall of 2000, after the acquisition of The Carson Group, where I was Managing Director of the Europe/Asia Pacific Corporate business for four years and based in London. I previously led business development for Carson Group in Brussels.

I hold a BA in Political Economics from Tulane University. I’m active in the Tulane alumni and I’m the Thomson Reuters executive sponsor of our relationship with the university.

I have a passion for the outdoors and spend my spare time surfing, mountain biking, traveling and exploring new places and cultures.

High energy global HR Executive and trusted business partner with demonstrated success across the full spectrum of human resources, strategic planning, system implementation and project management with P&L accountability and organizational design/development. Proven management experience within startups, M&A, growth, and downturn environments.Strong background in a variety of industries including financial services, marketing, and manufacturing.Consistently recognized for contributions to bottom-line improvements in profitability, productivity and employee engagement.