About Thomas L. Phillips, Jr.
Thomas L. Phillips, Jr. was an American businessperson.
Career Following business school, Phillips worked in venture capital.
Phillips later founded Starwave, a software and website company that Disney bought. Following the acquisition, Phillips served as the president of internet ventures at both ABC News and ESPN.
In 1998, Phillips was hired as the CEO of Deja.com, and subsequently sold the company's core assets to Google and eBay. By 2006, he was serving in a position with Google, as director of print advertising, with responsibilities that included managing Google client advertising in newspapers. He led Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, where he then served as director of search and analytics. In 2009, Phillips left Google to become CEO of Distillery.
Personal life Phillips has been described as "lanky". In his thirties, while working for Spy, he was described as riding a motorcycle to work.
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