From a conversation in a pub which led to the world's first enterprise P2P product, Phil has been at the forefront of bringing network optimization to the masses for over 25 years. After taking a sideways career swerve into the family farming business, which he described as 'just a different kind of manure', Phil teamed up with old friend and former colleague Andreas to take on the apathy and stagnation in the world of bandwidth management, OS Deployment and Enterprise Systems Management in general. Nowadays he can be found helping to guide and develop the 2Pint machine in the areas of product development, testing, research and bacon curing. When he's not busy trying to break Andreas' latest bit of code he can often be found out and about with his trusty Border Collie, long suffering wife and family in the wilds of Richmond park in London.