Philip Tye has been involved in the Asian capital markets for over 20 years, and established HFL Advisors in May 2014 as a platform to provide independent directorship and advisory services to various corporates and alternative investment funds. Mr Tye is a leading figure in the Asian hedge fund industry, as member of the AIMA Global Council and past chair of the AIMA Hong Kong Chapter.
Mr Tye built and ran DragonBack Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager and then hedge fund platform based in Hong Kong, between 2007 and 2012. He was responsible for all non-trading aspects of the hedge fund business, with particular oversight over risk control, compliance, operations, financial control and IT.
Mr Tye held various senior roles since he moved to Hong Kong with KPMG. He was chief financial officer and director of PMA Investment Advisors, director of Credit Suisse (where his roles included Prime Brokerage sales, COO for NJA Cash Equities and head of the strategic projects group for the regional finance department), and at KPMG where he focused on banking and securities companies across the region.
