David Phillips

Senior Managing Director at Providence Equity Partners

📍 United States, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
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Board Member
Mar 2025
Modern Campus is the leading provider of innovative, student-centric SaaS solutions, empowering over 1,700 higher education institutions to attract, engage, and retain learners for life. Our comprehensive suite of products addresses critical touch-points across the student lifecycle, enabling institutions to deliver personalized, dynamic learning experiences that align with the evolving needs of today’s diverse learners. Attract: We make it easy for prospective students—whether they are high school students or adults seeking opportunities—to find the right programs, understand costs, and navigate the enrollment process seamlessly with our industry-leading Web CMS and personalized marketing tools. Engage: Our solutions drive meaningful student engagement through personalized communications and involvement tracking, ensuring students stay connected and supported throughout their academic journey. Retain: By leveraging data-driven insights and streamlined processes, we help institutions build lasting relationships with students, supporting higher retention rates and successful outcomes. With a 98% customer satisfaction rate and numerous awards for service excellence, Modern Campus is the trusted partner for institutions aiming to create a modern, impactful educational experience. We believe in the transformative power of education and are committed to being the catalyst for change in higher education, helping institutions thrive in an increasingly complex landscape. Learn more at moderncampus.com Looking for your next big opportunity? Join a team that’s customer-obsessed, fearless in facing challenges, and united in the pursuit of excellence. At Modern Campus, you won’t just be building software—you’ll be building better futures.
Board Member
Apr 2023
Founded at Rice University, STEMscopes by Accelerate Learning has grown from a single product, to a brand that now offers a variety of curriculum and professional development solutions, including the National Institute for STEM Certification, designed to meet the needs of K-12 learners, including Next Generation Science Standards and state-aligned curriculum. STEMscopes can be used as a core curriculum or as a supplementary or enrichment resource in traditional, blended, and 1:1 classroom environments.
Board Member
Oct 2021
Seesaw is trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide and is the only elementary Learning Experience Platform that offers a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction. Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the students learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.
Board Member
Oct 2021
This account is now closed and is no longer monitored. To keep up with the latest updates, follow: → @Blackboard for Blackboard LMS, Ally, Evaluate, and Institutional Effectiveness news → @Encoura for Reach, Lifecycle Engagement, and Student Success → @Ellucian for Student and Enterprise Operations
Board Member
Oct 2021
Tenstreet represents a unique combination of capabilities and resources dedicated to finding new answers to the trucking industry’s toughest recruiting and driver management problems. Tenstreet combines state-of-the-art technology with innovative and strategic thinking that gives us great leverage in four distinct service areas - Recruiting, Safety, Onboarding, and Marketing. Over 15,300,000 IntelliApps have been received by recruiting teams at our over 4,200 client carriers. With a leadership team experienced in running technology companies and a background deep in trucking, we provide simple solutions to the problems that carriers face every day.
Board Member
Nov 2019
Our Shared Vision: Everyone Can Learn Like you, we believe every student has a right to experience the joy of learning, to gain meaningful access to the general education curriculum and to reach their full potential. For 20 years, it’s been our mission at n2y® to enrich the lives of students with complex learning needs—and those who serve them. One TRUSTED Source Today, in nearly 60,000 classrooms across the country, n2y is changing the lives of administrators and teachers, therapists and paraprofessionals, and all the students we serve—seamlessly delivering a complete, differentiated instructional program tailored to individual classroom and student needs. Our evidence-based solution supports every member of the special education team with standards-aligned content, planning, tracking and reporting. Students’ data stays with them throughout their education journey, making it easy to provide continuity and ensure a trajectory to success. One CONVENIENT Platform n2y’s comprehensive, cloud-based special education solution helps you manage complex tasks so you can focus on teaching and nurturing your students, ensuring that they participate in class, make meaningful progress in your program, and develop a path to independence. Delivered from one easy-to-navigate platform, our content is always up-to-date and aligned to your state’s extended standards. The RIGHT Total Solution for Your Students Developed by experts in the field, with input from practicing special educators at every stage, our total special education solution prepares students for the ultimate test: establishing a path to independence and success in life. Empower learning and enrich lives with our accessible academic content, supplemental newspaper, symbol communication tools, skill-based learning games, self-regulation and classroom management program and professional development—all detailed in the pages that follow.
Board Member
Oct 2011
Blackboard delivers the digital environment for transformational teaching and learning. We serve thousands of institutions with the industrys most AI-advanced LMS, Ally for accessibility, and institutional effectiveness solutions that put educators and learners at the center. Were an education company that builds technology.
Board Member
Jan 2007
Edmentum is committed to making it easier for educators to individualize learning for every student through simple technology, high-quality content, actionable data, and customer success. Founded in innovation, Edmentum’s powerful learning solutions blend technology with individual teaching approaches. We are dedicated to being educators'​ most trusted partner in creating successful student outcomes everywhere learning occurs. Our commitment is built off the emphasis we place on our core values: passion, people, respect, collaboration, and performance.
Board Member
Jan 2007
Ascend Learning is one company with a powerful portfolio of brands rooted in purpose with a clear mission: to help change lives by providing software-based, data-driven educational support that accelerates learning, advances job readiness and enables employment success. We're committed to accelerating the learning pathways that can move people into careers where they have the knowledge and skills to have an impact and help change lives in the communities they serve. As a tech-enabled services company and national leader in developing and delivering online educational content, software, assessments, analytics and simulations serving students, educational institutions and employers, we focus on high-growth careers in a range of industries, with a special focus on healthcare and other high-growth, licensure-driven professions. Our brands are organized into three segments: healthcare, fitness and wellness, and safety and security. We help frontline healthcare workers, nurses, physicians, emergency medical professionals, personal and group fitness trainers, financial advisors, insurance brokers and cybersecurity and skilled trades professionals prepare for licensure and certification — people who make our communities healthier, safer and stronger. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America's 2023 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity.
Board Member
Jan 2007
ZVRS offers customers the best videophone technology along with nationally certified interpreters and features not available through other VRS providers. Dedicated to innovation and committed to excellence, ZVRS continues to set the industry standard as the nation’s premier VRS provider and mobile VRS leader. For more information about ZVRS, visit www.zvrs.com and follow @ZVRS on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. #Bridging2Worlds
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2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
Modern Campus is the leading provider of innovative, student-centric SaaS solutions, empowering over 1,700 higher education institutions to attract, engage, and retain learners for life. Our comprehensive suite of products addresses critical touch-points across the student lifecycle, enabling institutions to deliver personalized, dynamic learning experiences that align with the evolving needs of today’s diverse learners. Attract: We make it easy for prospective students—whether they are high school students or adults seeking opportunities—to find the right programs, understand costs, and navigate the enrollment process seamlessly with our industry-leading Web CMS and personalized marketing tools. Engage: Our solutions drive meaningful student engagement through personalized communications and involvement tracking, ensuring students stay connected and supported throughout their academic journey. Retain: By leveraging data-driven insights and streamlined processes, we help institutions build lasting relationships with students, supporting higher retention rates and successful outcomes. With a 98% customer satisfaction rate and numerous awards for service excellence, Modern Campus is the trusted partner for institutions aiming to create a modern, impactful educational experience. We believe in the transformative power of education and are committed to being the catalyst for change in higher education, helping institutions thrive in an increasingly complex landscape. Learn more at moderncampus.com Looking for your next big opportunity? Join a team that’s customer-obsessed, fearless in facing challenges, and united in the pursuit of excellence. At Modern Campus, you won’t just be building software—you’ll be building better futures.
2023
Board Member
Nov 2023
As the world’s leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology, to ensure our 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances and connections. We provide insurance, repair, replacement, installation and 24/7 support for everything from cellphones to laptops and household appliances. Our experts are available online, on the phone, at one of our more than 800 stores, or can even come to you.
Board Member
Apr 2023
Founded at Rice University, STEMscopes by Accelerate Learning has grown from a single product, to a brand that now offers a variety of curriculum and professional development solutions, including the National Institute for STEM Certification, designed to meet the needs of K-12 learners, including Next Generation Science Standards and state-aligned curriculum. STEMscopes can be used as a core curriculum or as a supplementary or enrichment resource in traditional, blended, and 1:1 classroom environments.
2021
Board Member
Oct 2021
Seesaw is trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide and is the only elementary Learning Experience Platform that offers a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction. Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the students learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.
Board Member
Oct 2021
This account is now closed and is no longer monitored. To keep up with the latest updates, follow: → @Blackboard for Blackboard LMS, Ally, Evaluate, and Institutional Effectiveness news → @Encoura for Reach, Lifecycle Engagement, and Student Success → @Ellucian for Student and Enterprise Operations
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