Phillip grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating with High Honors from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science degree. He was a United States Air Force R.O.T.C. graduate and completing that commitment joined the business world, initially with a position with the Ford Motor Company. He entered his current profession of investments as a broker in 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has spent years in emerging company investments with the fun and challenges they entail. He is blessed with clients throughout the country; his focus is on Minnesota based projects.

Musician, non-athlete athlete, father, husband, investor, trail runner, writer, reader, snowshoe enthusiast and movie buff whose tastes range from David Lynch to Stanley Kubrick, meet Phillip Gary Smith.

“A big fear is being stuck without something to Read.”

“Creativity is one of Life’s greatest elixirs”