Philip is a hybrid senior executive / entrepreneur who combines his significant leadership capabilities with engineering expertise in high-tech, satellite, renewable energy and complex infrastructure development..
Among his recent entrepreneurial endeavors, Philip founded multiple renewable energy companies, in partnership with Fortune 500 company SAIC, specializing in deployment of mass market, modular thermo-chemical conversion equipment across the Americas and Asia. Prior to these activities, Philip co-founded and led as President and CEO, a satellite communications company called ProtoStar Ltd. that provided direct-to-home bandwidth to small-dish television operators across Asia via several geostationary satellites which the company financed, built and launched.
In addition to his entrepreneurial and leadership capabilities, Philip was a consultant to Hughes Aircraft on numerous domestic and international satellite ventures including the roll-out of DirecTV, business plan development and financing for Galaxy Latin America, internet backbone services, air traffic navigation and broadband services via stratospheric platforms.
Regarding his engineering expertise, early on in his career Philip was employed as a satellite structures and composite materials engineer by Hughes Space and Communications and as a non-linear materials behavior specialist by the Naval Research Laboratory.
Philip earned his MBA from Stanford University and his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic University.
