Philip has over 25 years of experience in investment banking. Philip has held a number of management positions at each of Merrill Lynch, including co-head of Global Mergers and Acquisitions and head of Investment Banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and S.G. Warburg, where he started his banking career and later became Head of UK Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance. His most recent position was at PWP as a senior advisor, joining Planixs as a Non-Executive Director in 2014 and becoming Chairman in 2016.

Philip read Law at Jesus College, Cambridge and practiced as a corporate lawyer before moving into investment banking.