A first class Cambridge engineering graduate, Philip has broad management and marketing experience in various manufacturing and engineering industries. Before entering general management, he worked in export marketing and international logistics with Tube Investments, Raleigh Bicycles and Lucas Industries. He was founder general manager of Lucas Energy Systems Ltd in the late 70's and then negotiated their joint venture with British Petroleum, becoming the first Chief Executive of what is now BP Solar.

In the early 1980�s Philip Wolfe left to lead a small group of private investors in setting up Intersolar Group. He served as its Chief Executive while it expanded its business from industrial systems engineering into solar product marketing and thin film solar cell manufacturing. From 1993 to 2002 the Group was the sole UK manufacturer of photovoltaic cells.

He has served on the Board of Directors of European and British renewable energy associations, and on bodies advising ministers, the European Commission and the British Government. He has many publications on the application of renewable energy technologies and has featured on television and radio.

Philip Wolfe has four children, in their late teens and early twenties. He plays rugby and tennis, enjoys skiing and sailing, and holds a private pilot�s licence.