- James M. Phillips
James M. Phillips is an American businessman who is currently a managing partner at Pinnacle Investments. Prior to that, Phillips served as
vice chairman of theLuminetx Corporation , abioscience technology company. [cite web
url = http://www.luminetx.com/OurCompany/Management/tabid/63/Default.aspx#phillips
title = Management
accessdate = June 1
accessyear = 2008.] He also serves as CEO of Snowflake Technologies Corporation, asubsidiary 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 thecable modem to the market.Phillips went on 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 theFedEx Institute of Technology , becoming CEO and Chairman of the company. [cite web
url = http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Phillips_Jim_609855.aspx
title = Mr. Jim M. Phillips
accessdate = April 20|accessyear= 2007
date=October 28 ,2006
year = 2006
month = October]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. [cite web
url = http://www.luminetx.com/main/content.aspx?mnu=veinviewer
title = VienViewer Imaging
accessdate = April 23|accessyear= 2007
year = 2006] Impressed, Phillips quickly raised the capital to put VeinViewer into production. That was the beginning of what is now Luminetix Corporation. [cite web
url = http://www.societyofentrepreneurs.com/members/bio.asp?ID=130
title = James M. Phillips
accessdate = April 20|accessyear= 2007
year = 2006]References
External links
* [http://fedex.memphis.edu/about.shtml FedEx Institute of Technology]
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