After studying finance and accounting in the south of France and obtaining his Master’s degree, Philippe held various international management positions in the nuclear industry. In 2000 he restructured a mid-size company in Germany. In 2006 he became ERP Program Director and introduced project management techniques in the finance core model of Framatome. Back to Germany in 2011, he took the position of Corporate Controller at the Enrichment Technology Company, which develops and manufactures centrifuges. Philippe then joined the Olkiluoto 3 project as CFO and spent more than four years in Finland focusing on stabilizing the project, before moving back to France in 2018 to become Finance and Procurement Head of the ITER Organization. Philippe joined Renaissance Fusion in 2024.