Trading systems, investment strategy and applied AI.

Philip Stern is the founder and Managing Partner of Fillest Corp, an advisory firm serving hedge funds, startups, family offices and consultancies. Since establishing the firm in New York in 2021, he has personally led client mandates spanning trade execution, trading systems, investment strategy and applied artificial intelligence, across both traditional and digital asset markets.

Alongside the firm's advisory practice, Philip has held senior operating roles at several institutions: Head of Trading at Brooklyn Investment Group, since acquired by Nuveen, where he architected the multi-asset execution platform behind the firm's direct indexing and tax-loss harvesting business and ran trading on it from launch; Chief Technology Officer and Partner at Syncretic Capital, an institutional long-short digital asset hedge fund; and Head of Investment Technology at Atalaya Capital Management through its acquisition by Blue Owl Capital. He also serves as an advisor to a number of companies across finance and technology.

Before founding Fillest, he spent eleven years at Bridgewater Associates, leaving as Head of Algorithmic Trading, where he directed the construction of the firm's automated transaction cost analysis and optimization platform across asset classes.

Philip received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in electrical engineering from Princeton University, where he wrote his thesis on artificial intelligence, and holds minors in quantitative and computational biology, computer science, and biological engineering. He lives in New York.