Philip Ashton is a Director with Polyphonic Capital. He analyzes risk exposures and performance of investment strategies and negotiated and manages the firm’s strategic relationships with equity, fx, and futures and options pb relationships. At Polyphonic he has also developed and manages reconciliation processes for futures, fx and equity trading. Additionally, he executes the firm's fx trading across firm’s strategies, oversees investor communication and reporting, and has procured and manages data sets from global exchanges and other providers. He also researches additional strategies for inclusion in firm’s portfolio.Prior to working with Polyphonic, Mr. Ashton was a Director at the Rock Creek Group where he oversaw portfolio construction and asset allocation efforts and coordinated investment, operational and risk due diligence. He also conducted manager due diligence and monitoring, particularly for quantitative and systematic strategies.Prior to working with Rock Creek, Mr. Ashton was a Portfolio Manager at Keel Point Advisors where he was responsible for traditional and alternative manager selection, asset allocation design, and portfolio construction and management. He was the co-CIO and founder of the BlueArc Multi-Strategy Fund, a $100mm Fund of Hedge Funds, and the co-CIO of the BlueArc Global Macro Fund, a $30mm Global Macro Fund of Funds.Prior to joining Keel Point, Mr. Ashton was a Managing Director and CIO for O’Meara Ferguson Asset Management, where he developed and ran the firm’s outsourced CIO program, created investment strategies for internal fund of funds vehicles and oversaw the firm’s risk management practices.Previously, Mr. Ashton was a partner with the Radcliffe Fund, a $600 million multi-strategy hedge fund. While with Radcliffe, Mr. Ashton engaged in equity, credit and volatility analysis, trading, hedging, portfolio selection and management. He developed the firm’s international investment business, managing and trading the fund’s $300 million portfolio of European and Asian bonds, as well as overseeing a significant portion of the domestic portfolio. He also sourced and structured privately negotiated investments in public companies (PIPES) for both the Radcliffe Fund and the management firm’s previous fund, Rose Glen Capital. Prior to his work with the Radcliffe Fund, Mr. Ashton worked for Evercore Partners, an investment banking and private equity firm located in New York.Mr. Ashton has an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology.