Phillip Riese
Phillip Riese has served as a member and chair of our Board of Directors since August, 2013. He brings 30 years of executive and operating experience to his Board service, combined with an additional 20 years of working with some of the most innovative, disruptive, and rapidly growing public and private companies and their management teams around the world.
Phillip spent 18 years at American Express (NYSE: AXP) in a variety of positions, and over the last 8 years of his service was the president of the Consumer Card Group and chairman of American Express Centurion Bank. He had previously been a division executive at Chase Manhattan Bank, responsible for their Merchant Services business, and before that, a partner of M.C. Geffen and Associates, a consulting firm in South Africa.
Over the past 20 years, Phillip has served on a number of public and private company boards around the world, and today is a board member of Remitly (Nasdaq: RELY) as well as Array, Betterment, Cross River Bank, Mpower and Relay Network. He also advises a number of CEOs and venture funds globally and serves as a board member of Accion, a not-for-profit dedicated to global financial inclusion.
Phillip earned a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Leeds University in England, an MBA from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and a Master of Science degree from MIT's Sloan School of Management.