Matt Phillips is the President and Founder of Phillips & Co., a Chicago-based innovation think tank specializing in breakthrough thinking and new product development.

With more than 20 years of experience, he has served as an in-demand advisor to Fortune 500 companies, large non-profits, and rapidly growing mid-sized organizations. Matt leads a team of researchers, strategists, and inventors who help organizations develop new products, services, and business models. His clients include Paramount Pictures, Dell, Verizon, Purina, Pella, the National Science Foundation, the TSA, and the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation.

Matt holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and completed the Conservatory Program in Improv at The Second City.