Charles Phillips

Independent Director since: 2026

Key skills and experience:

• Leadership: Recognized as a transformative leader who has managed large-scale, complex global organizations. Built Recognize into a successful growth equity firm, transformed Infor, Inc. into the first dedicated industry cloud company and oversaw a near-300% total increase in revenue and market capitalization at Oracle Corporation during a period of more than 70 strategic acquisitions that expanded the company’s product portfolio and global footprint. Honored with the Perlmutter Award for Excellence in Global Business Leadership by the International Business School at Brandeis University in 2017 and appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 to the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
• Technology: A proven technology industry executive with decades of leadership across enterprise software and cloud computing. Acquired significant technological expertise through executive roles in technology industries, including Chairman and CEO of Infor, Inc., the first enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider. Founded Hook & Loop, an in-house creative design agency to modernize business software interfaces, and served as Managing Director in the Technology Group of Morgan Stanley.
• Financial expertise: Developed significant financial expertise in his executive roles at Recognize, Infor, Inc. and Morgan Stanley, as well as during his tenure as Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as a board member of the American Express Company, a major global financial services corporation.
• Regulatory/public policy: A national technology thought leader with extensive experience overseeing and operating within highly regulated financial institutions and public companies, including as a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Barack Obama.

Career highlights:

• Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Recognize, a technology growth equity firm (2020-present)
• Chairman and CEO of Infor, Inc., an enterprise software application provider (2010-2020)
• Director of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2017-2020)
• President of Oracle Corporation, a provider of products and services that address enterprise information technology needs (2003-2010)
• Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm (1996-2003)

Other public company boards:

American Express Company (since 2020)
Compass Inc. (since 2020)
Paramount Global (2019-2024)
Oscar Health (2021-2022)