As Vice President of Corporate and Business Development, Phil works as a member of the office of the CEO, and is responsible for corporate and business development activities and expanding Black Duck's reach, image and product breadth by developing partnerships across Black Duck's ecosystem (which comprises ALM companies, systems integrators, and the open source and legal communities). A frequent speaker at open source industry events, Phil chairs the Linux Foundation's Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) working group and participates on the GENIVI marketing team.

With over 20 years software industry experience, Phil came to Black Duck from Empirix where he served as Vice President of Business Development and in other senior management positions. Prior to Empirix, Phil was a partner and ran consulting at High Performance Systems, a startup computer simulation modeling firm. He began his career with Teradyne's electronic design and test automation (EDA) software group in product, sales and marketing management roles.

Phil has an AB in Engineering Science and an MS in System Simulation from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.