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Pamela Jolly
CEO, Torch Enterprises Inc
Location: Philadelphia , PA United States
Joined: Sep 6th, 2013

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ABOUT PAMELA JOLLY, Torch Enterprises, Founder & CEO
Pamela brings more than 18 years of proven leadership and strategic management expertise in financial services, real estate, education, media, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors. A former banker and research strategist, she incorporates both the financial and strategic objective of projects while linking both to the individual needs of the community. She has developed marketing strategies across several industry groups to drive profitable growth through acquisition and customer management campaigns. Her Corporate expertise lies in finance, strategy, segmentation-based marketing strategy and execution, and insight research studies through qualitative and quantitative methods. In early 2004, Pamela came to realize that she needed to identify opportunities where she could better align her profession with her passion for helping African American Businesses and communities grow and develop.
The result was the launching of Torch Enterprises, a firm focused on creating, sustaining and increasing legacy wealth for women & minority owned businesses and their communities. The firm works to overcome financial oppression by working together with various sources of capital to form closed loop economic circles in communities. For the past nine years she has worked advising minority businesses, under-served communities, and faith based organizations on how to best transform their communities via a shared community vision combined with alternative investments and unique fundraising methods. She is well versed in investment strategies that incorporate both the social and financial returns desired by private, corporate and community investors.

Pamela served as a contractor for FEMA in 2005 where she underwrote over $200 million for municipalities in Mississippi that were affected by Hurricane Katrina and later went on to lead the team that authored the strategic assessment of how to rebuild the Greater New Orleans area post Katrina. This experience highlighted importance of knowing how integrate minority business development with government, large corporate entities and community to drive economic impact and change in under- served communities.
Pamela is a requested speaker both nationally and internationally, lecturing and advising businesses and leaders with her research and work in places such as Korea, China, Japan, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, and Jamaica. She speaks across the country on the importance of legacy wealth creation through ownership and equity highlighting collaborative investments and personal accountability in under-served communities.

Pamela holds a B.S. From Hampton University, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, a Masters in Theology from Boston University School of Theology, and is currently pursuing an Ed.D. from The Graduate Theological Foundation.
www.torch-enterprises.com

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Hampton University class of 1994

Undergrad Major: Marketing

Claim To Fame:

In 2012 Pamela completed a national qualitative study of faith and finance in the African American community where she investigated behaviors and beliefs around legacy wealth creation, ownership, faith, and entrepreneurship. Findings from this work were used to establish The Narrow Road™ a unique method that assists individuals, entrepreneurs, and groups in navigating their way to build legacy wealth via ownership. Her book, highlighting the research behind The Narrow Road™ will be released early next year. This summer Pamela continued her studies at Oxford University School of Theology Summer Program exploring topics such as liberation theology, christian ethics and the theological implications of the global financial crisis. This Fall Pamela began teaching at Philadelphia University's Strategic Design MBA Program (SDMBA). SDMBA is for high-potential professionals who want to be well-positioned for big opportunity — whether in a major corporation, nonprofit or entrepreneurial venture. This program combines the best of business school with the best of design thinking.