Phil develops CAD software for a living, working on a programme which is used in the design of anything from kettles to the Mars rovers. He’s an avid gamer, briefly trained as an armourer and owns a lot of books on swords. His favourite author is Avram Davidson and he has been a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Phil has been going to conventions since he discovered fandom in 1982, courtesy of CUSFS. He has run one Eastercon Green Room and worked in most of the others over the last thirty years.

Phil has spent over a decade working at conventions including Worldcons in London, Helsinki, Dublin, and Glasgow  co-chaired Ytterbium, the 2019 Eastercon, and chaired Reclamation, the 2022 Eastercon. When not reading SF, he can be found discussing cats, contemporary insurgency theory or loud angry 90s American guitar music. He has agreed to be bound by the committee’s decision not to play much of the latter at the convention.