Phil Emer

As vice president, business development at MCNC, Phil Emer is responsible for growth and innovation initiatives amongst NC public education institutions, most private colleges and universities, the NC Telehealth Association, and many other community anchor institutions.

For more than 35 years, Phil has worked at the intersections of network technology, research, academia, and business – splitting time between the public and private sectors. In the private sector, Phil has worked as a technical business development manager with Amazon Web Services (AWS), as an engineer with IBM, as a technology executive with venture-backed Carolina Broadband, and as a member of the leadership team with not-for-profit MCNC. In the public sector, Phil directed voice, video, and data communications at North Carolina State University and served as senior director of technology planning and policy with the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.

Phil has served on the NC eLearning Commission, the advisory board of the Institute for Next Generation IT Systems, the architecture review board of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, and the NC Innovation Council. Currently he serves on the Board of the Wireless Research Consortium and on the Strategic Advisory Board for the College of Engineering at NC State University. Phil earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in computer engineering from NC State University.