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Philip D. Moyer

As Vice President and Managing Director in Safeguard Scientifics' Technology Group, Philip Moyer is responsible for deploying capital in and partnering with technology companies in the financial technology, and Enterprise 3.0 industries.

Moyer brings more than 25 years of experience to Safeguard, having most recently served as the President and CEO at EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDGR). While there, he led the transformation and recapitalization of the company, reversing losses and producing quarterly operating profits.

Prior to his time at EDGAR, Moyer led a management buy-out from Capmark of Cassiopae, a European-based commercial lending software company. Before this, he spent 15 years in various senior level positions at Microsoft, managing multi-hundred million dollar P&Ls. Specific roles at Microsoft included General Manager of the Professional Services Industry, General Manager of Global Customers, and Global Manager Enterprise Services and Partners for the U.S. East Region.

In 1988, Moyer co-founded the Orion Systems Group, a company that developed administrative software for the K-12 education market. Orion Systems was later sold to SunGard. He began his career at GE Aerospace as a software developer. Since the start of his career, Moyer has served as an Angel Investor in ten companies, ranging from start-ups to $3 million growth companies.

Moyer holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and currently serves on the board of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh. In addition, he serves on the Board of XBRL US.

How West and East Coast Dynamics Help Startups Succeed
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Silicon Valley has been a hotbed for entrepreneurship and innovation for the last four decades. It’s packed with big thinkers, highly talented engineers, and VCs who swing for the fences. Combined, this Silicon Valley beehive of entrepreneurs, developers,...

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The Ballad of the Brave CIO

The Ballad of the Brave CIO

Posted by Philip D. Moyer on March 29, 2012
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Few key roles in a company are as dynamic as the CIO has been over the past 20 years. CIOs have come a long way, from implementing hardware and software packages in the 1990s to managing outside contractors when economics pushed IT departments to outsource...

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5 Ways Mobile Technology is Reshaping the World
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Previously, I’ve highlighted the five key areas driving Enterprise 3.0—social media, mobile, technology, the cloud, Internet of Things, and big data—and how they are  fundamentally transforming the enterprise and creating a wide-open field for...

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New Partner Company Lumesis Bonds Big Data with Financial Sector
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Screenshot of DIVER (Demographic Information Visualization for Economic Research), a Lumesis product. According to a 2011 IDC Digital Universe study sponsored by EMC, the amount of global data generated annually is doubling every two years and was expected...

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XBRL: A New Language for the Large Data Challenge
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While I’ve already written a few blog posts, I thought this would be a good opportunity to properly introduce myself on the blog, as my professional roles offer me a distinctive point of view on XBRL. I’m Phil Moyer, Vice President and Managing Director...

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Big Data and Gamification: How These Trends Drive Innovative Solutions
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Earlier today we announced that Safeguard Scientifics added two new technology partner companies to its portfolio: Crimson Informatics and Hoopla Software. Big data, mobile, cloud computing, and gamification continue to drive capital deployment opportunities...

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