Before joining Google in 2005 to oversee operations in Northern and Central Europe, Philipp was a board member and senior vice president at AOL Germany, running the company's marketing and sales activities. He was responsible for one of the largest marketing and sales budgets in the country, constantly innovating in the areas of direct marketing, traditional brand marketing, customer relationship management, pricing, business intelligence and data mining. He developed major sales partnerships and internationally acknowledged marketing projects, winning several industry awards. Previously, he was head of marketing at CompuServe in Germany, a subsidiary of AOL Inc., and also worked as an e-commerce and marketing specialist at the global AOL headquarters in the U.S.

Philipp earned a Diplom Kaufmann degree with distinction from the European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany. He is a scholar of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and also serves on the jury of the German Marketing Award.

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