Philip D. Amoa, NACD.DC, is an equity partner at McCarter & English LLP and the managing partner of the firm's Philadelphia office. Amoa's legal practice involves representing emerging-growth and middle-market companies, including their boards of directors and management and the investors that govern, operate, and transact with them. Amoa's board experience is derived from his sophisticated knowledge of Delaware corporate law, his service on the board of an institutional investor, and his experience running his own technology-based company.

From July 2014 to July 2022, Amoa served as an independent director of the board of pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a national faith-based health insurer and $12+ billion pension fund. During his tenure, he chaired the governance committee and served on the board's executive, compensation, investment, and legal committees. While serving on the governance committee, he steered transformational change to the board's governance practices. As a result of Amoa's leadership, the board of pensions won the 2020 NACD NXT award, a national honor recognizing its prioritization of diversity and inclusion. At the end of 2020, Amoa was appointed to chair the board of director's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) task force. In addition to his leadership on DEI initiatives, Amoa was instrumental in allocating oversight responsibility of cybersecurity and data privacy to the audit committee as well as overseeing a major digital-transformation project. Amoa has significant experience in executive compensation matters, succession planning (related to overseeing the transition of the organization’s chief investment officer), shareholder-engagement strategies (with regard to environmental, social, and governance given the company's role as a faith-based investor), asset-allocation strategies (including fixed income, alternatives, money market, and equity securities), governance, strategic planning, and overseeing an annual budget of approximately $70 million.

In 2008, Amoa founded and served as CEO of Legal Summer LLC an online technology company that connects summer associates and interns with internships and full-time legal jobs. As founder, Amoa served in different capacities, including developing the company's strategy, which led to the company breaking even in less than a year. He built a national sales force and worked with other key members of the team to execute the strategy. In 2015, he created Willit Corp. to pilot an app that provides users with crowd-sourced reviews of nightlife venues. Pre-law school, Amoa worked for Merck as a supply-chain analyst.

Amoa serves on the board of the NACD Philadelphia Chapter and has achieved director certification from the NACD. He has also served in numerous board roles with other nonprofit organizations, including the Delaware BioScience Association (Delaware's largest bioscience trade association) and the community advisory board of WHYY (greater Philadelphia's leading public-media provider and NPR affiliate), chairing the governance committee of the latter.

In his legal practice, Amoa is an accomplished corporate lawyer representing domestic and international companies in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, transportation and logistics, technology, life science, financial and business services with a focus on venture capital and private equity, mergers, and acquisitions, and Delaware corporate law. He is the founder and chair of the firm's Delaware corporate, LLC, and partnership law practice where he provides clients with critical guidance on governance issues, including fiduciary duties, risk oversight, conflicts of interest, board and committee structure, and special committee investigations.

Amoa was named to Savoy's "2022 Most Influential Black Lawyers," Philadelphia Business Journal's "2019 40 Under 40 Awards" list, and The Legal Intelligencer's "Most Effective Dealmakers." Amoa graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law and Gwynedd Mercy University.