Phil Giesler

Phil Giesler is the Director of Innovation for Physic Ventures and Unilever Corporate Ventures. He is based in San Francisco as a full-time member of the Physic operating team. Phil is responsible for leveraging Unilever’s technical and marketing resources to the full advantage of the Physic team and its portfolio companies, including access to more than 5,000 scientists and engineers involved in new product development, access to deal flow, market research, scientific data, marketing and distribution expertise, due diligence capabilities and a broad network of contacts. Phil was formerly a Board Director of Textronics Inc, recently successfully sold to Adidas Inc. He is currently on the Board of Rayne Corporation, Efficas, Corazonas Foods and Attune Foods. He is a member of the NVCA's Corporate Venture Advisory Group. Phil has gained extensive experience at Unilever, mainly focused on its Home & Personal Care business in R&D, Innovation, Category Management, and its Supply Chain. He has a degree in Industrial Chemistry from York University and an MBA from Bradford University, United Kingdom.

I love the excitement of working with others to build ideas and to challenge the status quo in order to build new visions of what is possible. I have urgency though to then turn this quickly into plan