Phil has led EEG since 2000, increasing overall revenue by a factor of five, and transitioning the company from a respected hardware equipment manufacturer servicing television broadcasters into a balanced provider of hardware, software, and SaaS solutions servicing new customers in streaming and OTT video, government, and global enterprise accessibility. Phil has been involved in broadcast closed captioning in the United States since its inception and was the principal engineer on the original consumer closed caption decoder chip, which went into tens of millions of television sets worldwide. Prior to his work at EEG, Phil was involved in engineering and entrepreneurship in the voice processing and video games industries throughout the 1980s.