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Community and civic service, branding, marketing, philanthropy and business ethics
Dean Phillips is Chairman and co-owner of Talenti Gelato, the world’s best selling gelato and America’s 3rd largest premium ice cream brand. Previously, Mr. Phillips served as President & CEO of Phillips Distilling Company, representing the fifth generation of his family to manage the business established by his great-great-grandfather in 1912.
Mr. Phillips serves as a Director of Winmark Corporation (WINA), a publically traded, retail franchisor and leasing company, and on the Board of Advisors of United States Distilled Products Co. and Rational Energies, a refiner of transportation fuels derived from municipal solid waste. Community and civic service are integral parts of Dean’s life. He is the immediate past-Chair of the Board of Directors of Allina Health, Minnesota’s largest healthcare provider, and former Chair of its Investment and Philanthropy Committees. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation, one of Minnesota’s largest private philanthropies, a Director of Youth Frontiers, on the Board of Advisors of The Minneapolis Parks Foundation, and on the President’s Circle of The Hennepin Theatre Trust.
Mr. Phillips is a member of the Advisory Council of The University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, a Director of The Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning, a joint program of the University of St. Thomas and Saint Johns University, and a Trustee of The Blake School. He is a former Regent of Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN, a former Director of Meld, a national organization providing support for parents raising children in high stress conditions, and a former Trustee of Temple Israel of Minneapolis.
Mr. Phillips holds a B.A. degree in Urban Studies from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He is a regular guest speaker in the areas of branding, marketing, philanthropy and business ethics to consumer and trade groups and universities.
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