James M. Phillips
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James M. Phillips is an American businessman who is the current vice chairman of Luminetx Corporation, a bioscience technology company.[1] He also serves as CEO of Snowflake Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Luminetx.
Phillips’ career began when he was asked to do research for his master’s thesis on an emerging company, Telecommunications System of America (TSA). TSA sold to Northern Telecom (Nortel Networks) and Phillips stayed on, moving rapidly through the ranks to vice president. After Nortel, he was named president of National Satellite Paging, changed the company name to SkyTel, and created the nation’s largest messaging company.
Following SkyTel, Phillips moved to Telular Corporation, selling a portion to Motorola when Telular went public. He remained with Motorola and participated in launching digital cellular and multimedia, bringing the cable modem to the market.
Phillips went to to become Chairman & CEO of Interactive Pictures Corp.(iPIX), a company that created the first virtual tours by using 360° navigable images. Eventually, he left iPEX to help build the FedEx Institute of Technology, becoming CEO and Chairman of the company.[2]
In 2004, after two and a half years at the FedEx Institute, Phillips was installed as CEO of Morgan Keegan & Company. While there, he was asked to evaluate a technology called VeinViewer.[3] Impressed, Phillips quickly raised the capital to put VeinViewer into production. That was the beginning of what is now Luminetix Corporation.[4]
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- ^ Management. Retrieved on June 1, 2008..
- ^ Mr. Jim M. Phillips (October 28, 2006). Retrieved on April 20, 2007.
- ^ VienViewer Imaging (2006). Retrieved on April 23, 2007.
- ^ James M. Phillips (2006). Retrieved on April 20, 2007.
