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Sterling Phillips joined Pequot Ventures as a partner based in McLean, VA. Since 1993, Mr. Phillips has served in top management positions in federal professional services contractors, focusing on their growth and development. Prior to joining Pequot, Mr. Phillips served for six years as chairman and CEO of Analex Corporation, a publicly traded federal professional services firm that was acquired in March 2007 by QinetiQ North America. Analex has more than 1,100 employees who provide information technology, engineering, security and intelligence related services to the U.S. intelligence community, the Department of Defense and NASA. Over the past six years, Analex completed three acquisitions, two divestitures and three rounds of private equity financing while growing from less than $20 million to more than $180 million in annual sales. Prior to joining Analex, Mr. Phillips was senior vice president of Federal Data Corporation (now part of Northrop Grumman) where he was instrumental in completing six acquisitions and growing revenues from $130 million to more than $650 million in less than five years. Mr. Phillips began his career with IBM Corporation where he progressed through a variety of technical, marketing and general management assignments. During his last nine years with IBM, he was an executive in their federal systems division (now a part of Lockheed Martin) in business development and general management roles. Following his retirement from IBM, Mr. Phillips joined Computer Sciences Corporation where he served as president of the federal business development division. In addition to SPADAC, Mr. Phillips serves on the boards of Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, Securify, Inc. and Touchdown Technologies Incorporated. Mr. Phillips holds a BS in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | 