Faculty & Staff
Daniel Phillips
- Executive-in-Residence Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
- Telephone: 617.287.5783
- Email: Daniel.Phillips@umb.edu
Additional Information
Background
Founder and Director of the College of Management's Entrepreneurship Center
Entrepreneur-in-Residence of the Venture Development Center
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
Dan's background includes spending 25 years as an executive with four venture capital backed software companies. Two of these companies achieved successful initial public offerings (IPO's) on NASDAQ and two were acquired by fortune 200 companies. The most prominent was as COO of Concord Communications which attained an $800,000,000 market cap and the most recent was as CEO of Silverback Technologies which was acquired by Dell Inc.
Over the last 18 years Dan has self funded his own Scholarship/Mentor program for UMass Boston students where he has helped fund the tuition and fees for UMass Boston students.
