Philip Tye

Phil has been based in Hong Kong since 1995 and has been involved in the Asian Capital markets for the last twenty-four years. Having established HFL Advisors in 2014 Phil is now a director and advisor to various hedge funds and hedge fund managers in the Asia Pacific region. Having built and run two successful hedge fund companies, he has broad experience across all facets of a hedge fund business including fund structuring and establishment, service provider selection, operational infrastructure, risk, regulatory compliance and accounting. Phil has also represented the hedge fund industry both globally and in the Asia region as a member of the AIMA Global Council from 2009 to 2018 and as a past Chair of the AIMA Hong Kong Chapter.

Phil has held various senior roles since he moved to Hong Kong with KPMG where he focused on clients in the banking, securities and fund management industries. He spent six years at Credit Suisse First Boston as a director in the Equities Division before joining PMA Investment Advisors as CFO. PMA’s $2bn hedge fund business focused on equity long short, credit and macro strategies and following the sale of PMA in 2006, Phil left to build and run DragonBack Capital, a $600m equity multi-strategy hedge fund manager and then hedge fund platform based in Hong Kong. As a partner at DragonBack he oversaw all non-trading aspects of the hedge fund business.

Apart from his work with AIMA, Phil’s public sector roles include being a member of the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for six years until 2020. He now sits on the Takeovers and Mergers Panel and the Takeovers Appeal Committee of the SFC as well as the SFC Public Shareholders Group. Phil is a Senior Fellow Member of The Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, a Fellow Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Finance. Philip holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Essex and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.