Phil is a graduate from the Oxford School of Business with a degree in Languages and Business Studies. He started his career in Paris in 1990 as a buyer for Les Galeries Lafayette, returning to London to work as a strategic management consultant in 1991, subsequently worked on diverse projects for Ford, Shell, Inchcape and Oxfam before joining Thomas Cook as a project manager in 1993, leaving as Director of Group Property in 2003.
Phil joined English Nature in December 2003 as Executive Director with overall responsibility for external and internal communications, external fund raising, customer service, environmental management and information systems. He had close involvement in the development and setting-up of Natural England with Defra.
In 2006 Phil left English Nature to found Green Ventures and is now leading projects ranging from the introduction of new and improved green technologies to the planning and delivery of ambitious sustainable property developments. Phil advises major organisations in the low carbon, renewables and waste sectors including public authorities and private companies such as IBM, Royal Haskoning and Kier. He is a founding member of the Peterborough Environmental Capital Partnership, Independent Environmental Advisor to Goldsmiths Jewellers and an Associate Director of the UK Centre for Environmental and Economic Development.
Phil has long standing associations with delivering environmental and renewable energy initiatives with communities. In 2007 he built a now well-know zero carbon house in a restored Victorian kitchen garden which is regularly written about in the media and visited by members of the public and professional groups from around the country.