Phil Bellaria, Founder and Managing Partner

Phil Bellaria

Founder & Managing Partner

Phil works with mid-market company boards and executive teams to build their companies’ data, analytics, and AI expertise. He translates data into decisions and actions that make money and grow customers.

  • An innovative, transformative senior executive with a proven Fortune 30 track record driving growth in cash flow, customers, and human capital.

  • An accomplished problem-solver and strategic business leader who has incubated and grown innovative teams and capabilities from inception to profitability.

  • A respected leader, coach, partner, and advisor who builds influence and a loyal following through collaboration, authenticity, connection, and shared commitment.

Phil brings together data, insights, judgment, and the right team to achieve exceptional results. He held leadership positions at Comcast-NBCUniversal from 2010 through 2023. As SVP of Enterprise Data & Analytics, he partnered with business leaders throughout the company to inform critical operational, customer and workforce decisions with master data assets and rigorous, advanced analytics, while building the team to a global, 350-person organization.

Prior to that role, he served as SVP of Applied Analytics at NBCUniversal, where he served as one of the founders and incubators of the organization that now supports Peacock and all NBCU direct-to-consumer and advertising businesses. He joined Comcast to lead Strategic and Customer Analytics, Customer Marketing, and Retention & Loyalty Marketing.

Prior to joining Comcast, Phil served on the National Broadband Task Force at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), responsible for developing the National Broadband Plan to drive higher broadband deployment and adoption and to achieve a world-leading broadband infrastructure in the U.S. He went to the FCC from Charter Communications, where at various times he led Customer Loyalty and Retention, Business Intelligence, and Telephone Product Management, and served as Chief of Staff to the CEO. Phil began his business career at McKinsey & Company, where he led McKinsey and client teams across multiple industries in data-driven go-to-market strategies. He began his professional career in the United States Air Force as an Intelligence Officer.

Phil served on the Board for the Greater Delaware Valley chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), a non-profit striving to prevent, treat and cure Type 1 diabetes.

He holds a B.A. from Duke University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

    1. Duke Basketball fanatic

    2. Youth basketball & flag football coach

    3. 17+ explanations (so far) for his hair loss

    4. Only bucket list item: hike the Appalachian Trail

    1. Jim Valvano: “If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day” (Except the cry part).

    2. Confucius: “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room” (Or you invited the wrong people).

    3. Phil Bellaria: “Life is more fun when you get along with people than when you don’t.”