Philip Gilchrist

Philip Gilchrist is Chief Transformation Officer for AI and Sustainability at TE Connectivity, a global industrial technology company, where he leads the enterprise’s AI and sustainability transformation agendas. He authored TE’s enterprise AI strategy, governance model, and core AI policy, chairs the company’s AI Governance Council, and leads the AI-first redesign of engineering, operations, logistics, manufacturing, and corporate functions, including the deployment of proprietary AI infrastructure and large-scale AI upskilling across the organization. On the sustainability side, he defined and executed TE’s materials science strategy spanning sustainable materials, additive manufacturing, and AI-driven design. Earlier, he held successive vice president roles at Motorola Mobile Devices spanning product management, platform engineering, and advanced technology, where he directed global mobile chipset and platform engineering and created Motorola’s Managed Innovation IP program. Philip served as a presidential appointee to the US National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, sits on the board of the TE Connectivity Foundation, and has spoken on AI policy at the World Economic Forum and the UN Summit of the Future. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Computer Science from the University of Stirling, Scotland.