Phillip Kim is portfolio manager for all Applied Equity Advisors strategies and oversees the team’s quantitative equity research. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2005 and has 20 years of investment experience. Previously, Phillip was a quantitative research analyst responsible for the implementation of the fund of hedge fund asset allocation model and risk analytic tools for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s third-party Alternative Investment Research Group. Previously, Mr. Kim worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Raytheon, where he was responsible for design and construction of the world’s first high-altitude, long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Mr. Kim received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, a M.S. in Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago