Phil is a member of Keele University’s Executive Team, with specific responsibility for the Development and Maintenance of the 620 acre estate. 

Phil’s career commenced with BT Training (a telecommunications training organisation), where he worked for 15 years, qualifying as an Accountant and progressing to be Divisional Financial Director/Controller. During this time, Phil took over responsibility for BT’s Engineering Training Estate, before leaving to take up finance/facilities management roles in the Construction Services and Manufacturing Industry. Prior to joining Keele in 2000, in 1997 Phil worked with a small team, merging two NHS Trusts, with a focus on optimising the efficiency of their combined operational estates. 

Phil is passionate about environmental sustainability, and has been a driving force behind the continued improvements in Keele University’s carbon reduction and the expansion of its on-site renewable energy generation, commissioning over 8MW of onsite renewable energy generation in 2021. This has enabled Keele University, which has quadrupled in size since 1990, to reduce the University’s 1990 baseline carbon footprint by over 30%. Phil also led the establishment of a Sustainable Energy Strategy in 2008, which delivered the development of the University’s 620 acre estate to become Europe’s largest at scale Smart Energy Network Demonstrator, providing a globally accessible research platform for sustainable energy management solutions.