Partners
Todd Hewlin
Philip Lay
John Metcalfe
Geoffrey Moore
Lo-Ping Yeh

Our Values

Philip Lay is a co-founder and managing director at TCG Advisors. With over 25 years experience in the IT industry, mostly in executive-level operating roles and since 1995 in his advisory role, Philip works with executive teams and boards of enterprise software and systems companies to address strategic problems affecting their success in the marketplace.

Philip also publishes an email newsletter and weblog titled "Under the Buzz" (readership over 30,000), and he is an accomplished keynote speaker and panel moderator at national and international conferences.

From late 1999 until the end of 2002 Philip served as the managing partner of The Chasm Group with responsibility for coordinating the firm's business strategy and operations.

Focus of Advisory Activities
As part of his work facilitating strategy development for clients, Philip also focuses on helping his clients to define suitable success metrics, drive go-to-market and resource management programs where needed, and deploy cross-functional teams composed of executives and middle managers to drive the new strategies to successful execution.

Client Base
His current and past clients include leading companies such as Agile Software, AspenTech, Autodesk, BMC Software, Hewlett-Packard, Lawson Software, and Mentor Graphics, as well as a number of other publicly and privately funded e-business software companies.

Before TCG Advisors and The Chasm Group
Prior to joining The Chasm Group in 1995, Philip co-founded and operated two successful businesses including TGR, a software development company specializing in data security and PC-to-mainframe file transfer products. Previously, he was country manager of a database and ERP software company, a corporate finance officer at Bank of America, and a sales executive for IBM UK.

Philip graduated in French and History of Fine Arts in 1971 with honors from the Universities of Reading (UK) and Aix-en-Provence (France). In addition to his native English, he speaks French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Email address
philiplay@tcg-advisors.com