Board of Directors
John Henry Clippinger, Chairman and Co-Founder
Michael Phillips, Director
Paul Trevithick, Director, CEO and Co-Founder
Christine Varney, Director
John Henry Clippinger, Chairman and Co-Founder
John is currently a senior fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a consultant to Parity, and the author of his most recent book, A Crowd of One. Prior to founding Parity, John co-founded LingoMotors, a software company for natural-language search. Previously, he was CEO of Context Media LLC, a knowledge management company, and Director, Intellectual Capital, at Coopers & Lybrand. He holds six software patents, and is the author of several books and papers on technology strategy and policy, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics. John has received awards from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, and has served as an advisor to the Department of State, FCC, OTA, and the White House. John is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Aspen Institute, the Highland Forum, and The Santa Fe Institute.
Michael Phillips, Director
Mike is the chairman of Russell Investment Group, a global leader in multi-manager investing. He served as chief executive officer from 1993 to 2003. In addition, Mike is a member of Russell's executive and management committees. Mike is a board member of Frank Russell Company, and Russell Investments Limited (London). In 2006 Mike was appointed by the White House to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), representing the U.S. financial services industry. He is chair of the Finance Economic Working group (FEWG) of ABAC. Mike is also chair of the Russell 20-20 Association. In 1981, Mike joined Russell in the London office and became the managing director in 1983. There, he helped build a European presence for Russell. In 1986, Phillips moved to company headquarters in Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A., to serve as director of international consulting. In that capacity, he led Russell's efforts to establish offices in Toronto, Sydney and Tokyo. Mike became president of Russell in 1990. Before joining Russell, from 1971-1981, Mike was an investment analyst and a portfolio manager at Barclays Investment Management Ltd. in London, where he was responsible for managing internationally diversified pension fund assets. Mike also taught investment courses at City of London Polytechnic School of Business Studies.
Christine Varney, Director
Christine is the leader of Hogan Hartson's Internet and Anti-Trust practices, and authority on privacy issues. She is also an investor in Parity. Christine rejoined Hogan & Hartson, after five years in government service, to head the firm's Internet Practice Group. Her practice provides full service assistance to companies doing business globally, primarily through the Internet, including advice in privacy, business planning and corporate governance, intellectual property and general liability issues. During her government tenure Christine served as a Federal Trade Commissioner from 1994 to 1997. She led the government's effort to examine privacy issues in the information age, resulting in Congressional and agency hearings, proposed industry standards and increased government enforcement of laws protecting privacy. Prior to becoming a Federal Trade Commissioner, Christine was an Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet. Christine was the primary point of contact between the President and the 20 members of his Cabinet.