Phyllis Brock (Principal Highland Team)

Phyllis Brock is a senior executive with extensive leadership. sales, marketing and Internet management experience. She is highly regarded for her unique ability to consult with leaders and their teams to produce breakthrough results. As Principal of Highland Team, Phyllis provides strategic marketing expertise and executive leadership programs to large firms as well as start-ups. Clients include Align Technology, Covad, Cisco, Genentech, Google, Hewlett Packard, Netsuite, Oracle, Stanford, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Wells Fargo and many start ups.

Phyllis is passionate about her work and focuses on results that affect the bottom line. She is widely sought after for her business acumen as well as her ability to integrate the needs of an individuals’ well being into the business context.

Previously, Phyllis was Vice President of eBusiness for Nortel Networks. She developed the vision and direction for Nortel to revolutionize their position in the electronic commerce landscape.To achieve this, Phyllis shaped an innovative culture for the global organization, aligning 90,000 people to the web strategy. Her award winning accomplishments were written up in Business Week.

At Bay Networks, Phyllis defined the worldwide distribution strategy and created all the channel marketing programs that drove 85% of Bay Networks. As a result Bay Networks’ program catapulted from last place to first place within a year.

Phyllis started up Sun Microsystems of Canada's marketing organization, resulting in a 50% growth of the company's revenues within 2 years. Phyllis started her career in sales at IBM Canada. She developed strategies to increase sales from $3 Million to $20 Million in her accounts.

Phyllis lives in the Bay Area, California. She is married with two wonderful teenagers. She is an active volunteer and loves the outdoors.