American Express Elects Charles Phillips to Board of Directors
27 October 2020 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
American Express (NYSE: AXP) today announced that Charles
Phillips has been elected to its Board of Directors, effective
December 1, 2020.
“Charles has extensive leadership experience in the technology
industry with an established track record of executing significant
organizational and digital transformations to drive results,” said
Stephen J. Squeri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American
Express. “In addition, Charles has deep expertise in financial
markets and the regulatory environment, all of which will be highly
valuable additions to our Board. I look forward to having Charles’
perspective on the Board as we execute against our key priorities
and position the company for growth in the future.”
Mr. Phillips is currently Co-Founder and Managing Partner of
Recognize, a technology investing and transformation company. Prior
to Recognize, Mr. Phillips served as Chairman of the Board of
Directors and CEO of Infor, Inc., an enterprise software
applications provider. Mr. Phillips helped build Infor into a
leading cloud business software company, successfully acquiring and
integrating multiple businesses and leveraging design thinking and
artificial intelligence to modernize the company’s products, which
led to the sale of the company earlier this year.
Before Infor, Mr. Phillips worked for eight years at Oracle
Corp., serving as Co-President with responsibility over
acquisitions, sales, consulting services, industry business units,
marketing and customer relationships. At Oracle, Mr. Phillips
contributed to expansive growth and completed the acquisitions of
70 companies.
Mr. Phillips was previously a Managing Director at Morgan
Stanley and was named the top analyst for enterprise software by
Institutional Investor from 1994 to 2003. Black Enterprise magazine
also named him one of the Top 50 African Americans on Wall Street
in 2002. Before entering business, Mr. Phillips, who comes from a
line of three generations of military service, was a Captain in the
U.S. Marines Corps.
He also serves on the boards of ViacomCBS, Compass, the Apollo
Theater, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Phillips
previously served on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Board
of Directors, as well as on President Obama’s Economic Recovery
Advisory Board.
Mr. Phillips attended the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he
received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, and
earned an MBA from Hampton University. He also received a J.D. from
New York Law School.
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