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January 26, 2022

Madrona Venture Group

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group announced that James Phillips is joining the firm as a strategic director. Phillips will work with Madrona's portfolio company founders and executives, sharing his insight and operating experiences and will collaborate with the investment team. Phillips is the president of the Digital Transformation Platform group at Microsoft, a product development group spanning Microsoft's business applications and services. Prior to joining Microsoft, Phillips was a founder and CEO of Akimbi Systems and a co-founder at Couchbase. He held engineering, product management, corporate development and marketing leadership roles at Intel, VMware and Synopsys, and spent two years as a technology investment banker with UBS PaineWebber. Phillips joins a growing group of experienced operators joining the firm to help portfolio companies and assist the investment team. Recent strategic directors include founder and CEO of Apptio, Sunny Gupta, president and CEO of Tableau, Mark Nelson, and senior director of business development and strategic alliances at Nanostring, Charlotte Hubbert.




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