Author Reed Phillips

Reed Phillips has wide experience in media mergers and acquisitions. In 1996, he co- founded DeSilva + Phillips, a leading boutique M&A firm focused on traditional and digital media. For the past 20 years, he has worked as a media investment banker and has completed almost 200 transactions with companies such as ABRY Partners, Bonnier Corporation, Conde Nast, Court Square (previously named Citigroup Venture Capital), Dow Jones, Euromoney Institutional Investor, IDG, Infogroup, The New York Times, Rodale, Shamrock Holdings, Time Inc., WPP and Ziff Davis. He was the winner of the “2007 Media Deal of the Year,” presented by Mergers & Acquisitions at the ACG’s InterGrowth Conference. Mr. Phillips' media industry experience includes positions he held during the 1980’s as founder of Fathers, associate publisher of The New Republic, vice president of The Washington Weekly, and circulation director of The Washington Monthly. He is often called upon to comment on the media industry by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News, Financial Times, NPR, Bloomberg TV and Vanity Fair and has published articles in Harvard Business Review online, TheDeal.com, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly and several industry publications. He holds an A.B. from Duke University.