David Wendell Phillips
| David Wendell Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 21, 1962 Alexandria, Virginia |
| Alma mater |
Pomona College University of Chicago School of Law |
| Employer | Focus@Will |
David Wendell Phillips (born November 21, 1962) is an American lawyer, businessman and investor. He is an angel investor in Silicon Valley, an experienced Internet executive, entrepreneur, and attorney. He has served in several leadership roles over the past 20 years with companies such as AOL, AOL Europe, iCrunch.com/Music Choice, Napster/Bertelsmann, IGN Entertaimnet/Fox Interactive, NaturalPath Media/Six Apart (now SAY Media), and, SideCar Technologies.
David W Phillips graduated from The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J. in 1981. After high school, Phillips attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1985. In 1988 he received his J.D. from The University of Chicago School of Law.
Phillips' career in law started in 1988 at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) in Washington, D.C.). In 1991, he went on to serve as a Corporate Counsel & Business Development Attorney at ComTech Systems. In 1993, he joined the law firm of Cameron & Hornbostel in Washington, D.C., specializing in international trade and technology law.
In 1994, David Phillips began his career in the growing internet field, when he joined America Online as its second lawyer. There he delved deeply into emerging web issues ranging from data privacy and copyright to first amendment issues. [add cites].
In 1997, Phillips moved to London to join AOL’s joint venture with German Media Conglomerate, Bertelsmann AG. He served first as AOL UK General Counsel, then becoming the General Counsel of AOL Europe, reporting to Heinz Wermellinger in Zug Switzerland. After AOL and Bertelsmann AG acquired CompuServe and Netscape in Europe, Phillips transitioned to a business general management roll as Managing Director of AOL UK.
Phillips left AOL in January 2000 to become CEO of UK digital music pioneer, Crunch Music (acquired by Music Choice PLC in 2001.)
In 2002 Phillips served as a senior executive at Napster.
From 2005-2006, Phillips served as the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development & General Counsel at IGN Entertainment. During his tenure as EVP, David Phillips helped IGN acquire and integrate five digital entertainment companies and execute IGN's sale to News Corp in 2005 for $650 million.
In 2006, Phillips left IGN to become the founder and CEO of NaturalPath Media, which became the largest green ad network in the US (comScore), and was acquired by Six Apart in 2009 (now SAY Media.)
Since 2010, Phillips has been an active angel investor and advisor in the Silicon Valley startup community where he has invested between $10,000 and $50,000 per investment deal. Notable investments include: Motion Math, Massive Health, Talkable, Postling, Ekso Bionics, Say Media, Onfleet, Rock Health V5 Fund, Haystack TV, Shuddle, SONR Labs, and FocusAtWill.
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