This Week’s Speaker
Bryce Phillips, founder and CEO, Evo and evolution Projects (Oct. 15th) – Evo and evolution Projects – Blending Commerce, Cause, Culture and Community
Bryce Phillips studied finance, juggling school while living in Whistler BC, skiing professionally for companies including Patagonia and K2, and chasing winters around the world. In 2001 Bryce started evo, an action sports and outdoor lifestyle retail business, and in 2005 opened a flagship store in Seattle, Washington. Originally launching the site with one employee from his living room, evo has grown to over 1000 employees, is an outdoor experiences company with locations around the world with locations in Whistler, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Salt Lake City and in mountain locations across Japan (via “Rhythm Japan”). Today, evo is in travel, hospitality, recreation, retail, rental, and guiding/instruction.
Bryce is also a partner in evolution Projects, a real estate development company focused on creating urban and mountain community gathering places. One of evolution Projects’ most ambitious and recent projects is Campus Seattle, in partnership with Sellen Construction in the Fremont neighborhood. Campus Seattle brings together outdoor, health and wellness concepts including Brooks Running, Bouldering Project, Black Diamond, All Together Skatepark, evo and two award winning restaurants.
Bryce’s vision is to continue building a global brand via the “evo Ecosystem”, seamlessly blending commerce, cause, culture and community, delivering unique experiences across evo’s family of businesses.
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The Bellevue Rotary Club unequivocally embraces Rotary’s intolerance for racism. We believe in promoting respect, celebrating diversity, demanding ethical leadership, and working tirelessly to advance peace as central tenets of our work. We recognize we have more work to do to create a more just, open and welcoming club for all people. We acknowledge and support Black humanity and its value. We acknowledge the sadness, anger, mental and emotional exhaustion, and trauma that our African American members and other people of color continue to experience. The Bellevue Rotary Club understands its responsibility towards truth, equity, and social justice, and will work with our members to dismantle any and all forms of systemic racism within our Club. To do this, we will carefully look at our Club’s culture, policies, partners, and the work we do in our community as we work to improve ourselves first. The Bellevue Rotary Club will also work towards being an anti-racist club in alignment with our long history and value of serving humanity.
Bellevue Rotary Officers and Directors, July 2023–June 2024
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