Corley Phillips Managing Director and Co-founder |
Corley Phillips co-founded American River Ventures with over two decades of extensive experience in developing businesses, building sales organizations, developing marketing strategies, and creating partner programs. Prior to American River Ventures, Corley was an active seed-stage investor in 28 companies. He learned the art of entrepreneurship through a distinguished career that included serving as President and CEO of Manzanita Software Systems, an accounting software company that he merged with The Sage Group (LSE: SGE) in 1994, and as President and Co-founder of Grafpoint, a communications software company which subsequently merged with White Pine Software (NASDAQ: WPNE).
Corley understands firsthand what it takes to build a successful business from the ground up. He applies his experiences doing just that to every investment he oversees. In addition to running the helm of two successful start-up ventures, he held previous sales and marketing positions with Envision Technology and Hewlett-Packard.
Corley's current board memberships include SynapSense and OpenClovis. He also serves on the board of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy. Corley has actively helped shape the technology sector in the Sacramento region, investing both individually and through membership in the Sierra Angels and Sacramento Angels before starting American River Ventures, one of the area's first early-stage venture capital funds.
In his spare time, Corley enjoys fishing, fishing, and more fishing. In particular he enjoys fishing the American River. He, of course, also loves spending time with his wife and two children.
Corley holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
corley@arventures.com
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