377 Brookwood Drive
Franklin, NC 28734
Entrepreneur
Appointed by Board of Governors
July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2017
Phil Drake is a native of Franklin, NC. He graduated from Franklin High School in 1969, and graduated from Davidson College with a BA in Mathematics in 1973.
He has been married to the former Sharon Johnson for 42years. They have three adult children and six grandchildren.
After teaching high school for three years, he entered the accounting arena and began developing Tax Software in 1977. His company now has over 500 people employed either full-time or part-time in Macon, Clay and Haywood counties in various enterprises. Those businesses include accounting, retail, software, dining, theater, golf, printing, internet service, family entertainment, construction, and fiber optics.
Drake Enterprises has teamed with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to build a fiber ring that connects the far western counties of North Carolina via a fiber backbone.
The software division of Drake served over 50,000 tax preparers throughout the United States, and electronically filed 15 million federal tax returns and 12 million state returns in 2015.
Phil has served as a Minister of Music and Youth, has taught Sunday School for many years, and currently serves on the Board of The National Christian Foundation in Atlanta.
He likes his work, and he loves spending time with his family, including trying to outplay his grandchildren in video games.