Charles E. Phillips

Chairman at Apollo Theater

Charles Phillips is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Recognize, a technology investment and transformation company with over $1 billion in assets. He is the former CEO and Chairman of Infor, the third-largest business software applications company in the world, with operations in 190 countries and 17,000 employees. Prior to Infor, Phillips was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in the Technology Group and served on its Board of Directors. He later served as President of Oracle Corporation and a member of its Board of Directors. Phillips served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps in the 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines at Camp Lejeune in a line of three generations of military service.