Former President and CEO of Alcolac, Inc. and Sherex Chemical Co., Inc., companies with combined sales of $350 million. Added $200 million in value as realized on the sale of these companies in six years. In four years at Alcolac (owned by Rio Tinto Zinc Plc), built sales from $45 million/year to $150 million/year and quadrupled operating profit. Alcolac was then sold to Rhone Poulenc. In two years, returned Sherex (owned by Schering AG) to substantial profitability after four years of increasing losses. Sherex was then sold to Witco. He was founding CEO of two biotechnology (Biocode) and photochemical (PhotoSecure) start-ups for brand protection through 7 rounds of financing. Biocode was one of the founding companies of Authentix, acquired by Carlyle in 2008 for $135 million.As President of the Houdry Process Corporation, he revamped obsolete petrochemical technology to pioneer the worldwide production and use of octane enhancers to replace lead in gasoline. Investments exceeded $10 billion, of which $3 billion have been in Saudi Arabia. Houdry under Phillips, introduced China to modern petrochemical and refining technology.He set up two businesses for ICI in the USA.Specialties: David Phillips travels extensively and has conducted business in most developed and developing countries. He graduated from Oxford University, on a full academic scholarship having grown up in the industrial Midlands of England where he was born. He married in 1965 and he and his wife, Deirdre, have lived in the USA for the last 40 years and are United States citizens. They have three sons and nine grandchildren. Two of their sons are investment bankers and one is a pediatric heart surgeon.