Welcoming Phil Leslie to the TechNexus Venture Collaborative Team

Phil Leslie joins TechNexus as Managing Director, bringing more than a decade of entrepreneurial experience and a serial founder's perspective to the venture collaborative model. Leslie has founded several companies and serves on multiple advisory boards.

TechNexus Venture Collaborative is thrilled to welcome Phil Leslie to our team as Managing Director. Phil brings more than a decade of entrepreneurial experience in the technology sector. As a serial entrepreneur, Phil has founded several companies and serves on a handful of advisory boards. Recently, I sat down with Phil to learn more about how he plans to leverage his wealth of past experiences to accelerate growth for our partners and portfolio ventures in his new role. Josue Ortiz: Tell me about your career background? How did you get to where you are today? Phil Leslie: I started my career as an engineer at Microsoft , first working on Windows 2000 but later focusing on mobile and embedded versions of the software. There I found myself surrounded by terrifically talented and driven colleagues from all disciplines and developed an appreciation for commercializing innovations at scale. One of the most impactful lessons I learned in that era was around disruption and discontinuous innovation. Most companies are either disrupting an industry or being disrupted -- and sometimes the winners and losers aren’t evident until many years later. I fell in love with being the disruptor and moved on from Microsoft to founding and operating early-stage companies where I felt I had the best chance of getting more “reps” at commercializing disruptive innovations. Since then, I’ve enjoyed being a founder or operator at several early-stage companies. As a Founder of ProOnGo in the early days of the app economy, I enjoyed unlocking the value of new smartphone capabilities to transform legacy expense reporting processes. We ultimately grew that firm to be the #1 expense reporting solution on Intuit’s App Center before selling the venture to The Neat Company . As CEO of RIVS / interviewstream , I felt strongly that legacy interviewing processes were limiting the number and diversity of candidates being considered for open positions. We used technology to level the playing field for

By Multiple Authors at TechNexus Venture Collaborative