Thomas L. Phillips Jr.
Thomas L. Phillips, Jr. | |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University (undergraduate); Stanford University (MBA) |
| Occupations | media founder, publisher, executive |
Tom Phillips (formally Thomas L. Phillips Jr.), is a Harvard and Stanford-trained American founder and senior business executive, whose involvements have been primarily in publishing and media ventures, both print and digital. Phillips, Graydon Carter, and Kurt Andersen founded the humor magazine, Spy, which premiered in print in October 1986, and Phillips went on to founding and executive roles at Starwave, at internet ventures of ABC News and ESPN, and at Google, and to CEO roles at Deja.com and Distillery.