Philip was born and educated in the United Kingdom. He joined Citibank in London before moving to Athens where he worked as a foreign exchange trader for both Citibank and Chase Manhattan. He was then posted to Citibank's Middle East North African Training Centre in Athens/Beirut as the operations manager and a foreign exchange trainer.

In 1993 he was appointed Head of Learning and Education for UBS in North America. He later left the bank and went into partnership with two colleagues and set up a successful financial training company (New Learning Developments) in New York City.

In 1999 he returned to London where he worked as a training consultant to financial services institutions and the Ministry of Defense until 2003 when he moved to Greece to work on developing knowledge databases for online brokerage houses and conduct webinars on foreign exchange and online retail trading.

In 2012 he returned to the UK to write. To date, he has written several fictional short stories, an erotic romance titled Remembering Jounieh, a science fiction story titled The Old Woman of Mani, a poetry anthology titled If I Could Paint Your Picture, and a children's short story titled Sparky The Baby Green Dragon. He has also published through a New York publishing house www.businessexpertpress.com two non-fiction books, Mastering Options and Competing In The Financial Markets both on value investing in currencies and options.

He has just published his first two novels fast-paced political thrillers titled The Gladio Protocol. This novel set in Greece pulls on historical facts to weave an exciting suspense story about a government conspiracy that endangers the European Union, the peace between Greece and Turkey, and the economic viability of the whole of Europe. Its lover heroes Alex Kalfas and Gitta Lehrer battle to save their beloved Greece and restore peace and prosperity in Europe and the Aegean region. His second novel titled Smokescreen has just been published. The third novel in the Alex Kalfas series is The Broken Butterflies of Delphi - scheduled for publication in early 2024.

Philip's hobbies include movies, playing tennis, reading, travel Greece, flying single-engine planes, and quizzing.