Board Member

Jeremy G. Philips has been a general partner of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm responsible for early-stage funding of technology startups since May 2014. From January 2012 until May 2014, Mr. Philips invested in various private technology companies. 

From June 2010 to January 2012, Mr. Philips served as the Chief Executive Officer of Photon Group Limited, a holding company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. From July 2004 to March 2010, Mr. Philips held various positions of increasing responsibility with News Corporation, most recently serving as an Executive Vice President in the Office of the Chairman. Prior to his tenure at News Corporation, among other roles, Mr. Philips co-founded and served a Vice-Chairman of ecorp, a publicly traded Internet holding company. 

Mr. Philips serves on the boards of directors of Affirm Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded online payment platform based on trust, transparency and putting people first, and TripAdvisor, Inc., a publicly traded online travel research company, as well as several private Internet companies. Mr. Philips also serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and holds a B.A. and LL.B. from the University of New South Wales and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.