Philip Godfrey

Philip serves as Director of Private Markets at HighGround Advisors and manages all aspects of HighGround’s private investment portfolio. With 30 years of investment management experience, his background includes portfolio management across multiple equity strategies and two decades of experience in private equity, hedge funds and real estate.  

Prior to joining HighGround in 2022, Philip served as Senior Advisor at New State Capital Partners. Before that, he was Partner/Investment Committee Member at Bay Hills Capital Management, where he specialized in providing growth/buyout capital and partnering with next generation private equity managers, and Partner/Director at Pathway Capital Management, where he constructed multi-strategy, multi-manager private equity portfolios for large institutional investors. Prior to Pathway Capital, Philip was Vice President of The Blackstone Group and senior officer of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. 

Philip holds a BA in economics from the University of Hawaii and an MBA in finance from The Fuqua School at Duke University.

Asset Management