Philip is the Head of Portfolio Strategy and advises on portfolio development across each CFM investment program. He chairs the monthly Investment Committee and participates in many steering committees within the firm. Philip originally joined CFM in 2000 to work on the Discus CTA program and to build its intraday component. He was named Head of Directional Strategies in 2004 and then subsequently took responsibility for the development of CFM’s efforts to diversify away from core offerings, including the launch of alternative risk premia, in 2015. Prior to his work at CFM, Philip obtained a two-year European Fellowship to work at the CEA, France, working on a search for the charged Higgs boson at CERN, Switzerland. Philip has a PhD in experimental particle physics from Lancaster University.