Keynote Speaker

Tony Allen
Communications Executive
Bank of America Global Card Services

Tony Allen is the Communications Executive for Bank of America Global Card Services, the largest credit card company in North America and Europe with more than 40 million active customers and $230 billion in managed loans. He is responsible for associate and executive communications and integrating communications strategies for products and services in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Ireland and Spain.

Allen also manages the local public relations and media strategy in concert with the national media team and is a member of the Delaware market leadership team. Previously he was responsible for mid-Atlantic call center operations in Baltimore, Md.

Allen joined Corporate Communications in January 2004 after serving as the founding president of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League. Prior to holding that position, he was Speechwriter & Special Assistant to United States Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Allen holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware and a Master of Public Administration degree from Baruch College (CUNY) in New York City.

Allen serves on the Board of Trustees for the St. Francis Foundation, the Wilmington Hope Commission, the McLaughlin Education Fund and the Delaware Advisory Committee for the Rhodes Trust. In 2003, he was awarded the National Urban League’s Whitney M. Young Jr. Award for Advancing Racial Equality and named one of the 25 most influential Delawareans by Delaware Today magazine.

He lives with his family in Wilmington.

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