Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips has a diverse work experience in various roles and industries. Richard is currently serving as the Sr Director of Business Development & Planning at Turning Point Brands, Inc. since May 2022. Prior to this, they were the Sr Director of Operations at New Ventures at the same company from October 2020 to May 2022. Before joining Turning Point Brands, Inc., Richard worked at ZS where they held the positions of Consultant and Associate. As a Consultant, they focused on implementing enterprise search and intelligence gathering platforms and developing NLP algorithms for trend assessment and data processing. As an Associate, they oversaw the development and operations of a GMP compliant Hadoop-based data lake and created predictive models for risk/safety events. Richard also gained experience as a Summer Intern at Quad Group LLC and served as a Computer Science Lead Researcher at Information Sciences Institute. Richard started their career as a Student Researcher in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Richard Phillips studied Computer Science and Business Administration (B.Sc.) with a focus on Engineering at the University of Southern California. In addition to their degree, they obtained certifications in Anaplan Lvl 1 Model Building from Anaplan in October 2019 and SAFe 4 Practitioner Certification from Scaled Agile, Inc. in October 2019.