Long Biography
Phil has been instrumental in the development of technology, media and telecoms services in the UK for
more than 30 years.
He founded an electronic media business after graduating with a degree in Computing Science from Imperial College, and worked for
the UK's national news agency The Press
Association a few years later where he helped build their New Media division and digital
strategy.
From there he joined Internet pioneer Demon Internet as
CTO, floating that business as telecommunications operator THUS in 1999 where as
COO and one of the youngest FTSE executives in history he saw it grow into a FTSE 100 company.
In 2008 he joined the executive at Cable&Wireless Worldwide and
managed their subsequent IPO process.
Since 2010 Phil has been working with private equity companies as an advisor, a CEO, Non-Executive
Director and Chair across a broad portfolio of technology-enabled companies, and has completed
numerous private equity transactions.
He currently serves on the boards of Ascent, Sliide and Zen
Internet
as a Non-Executive Director, and is Chair of Miss Group, Firstborn and Celerity.
He has previously served on the boards of Comic Relief Ltd,
The Data Communications Company and
JT Global,
regularly lectured at Cambridge
University on technology topics, and continues to speak at both private and public events.