Tim Phillips has been a freelance journalist since 1990, writing about business, technology, social change and innovation. He has written for the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, The Times, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent and the Daily Express among others. For two years he was a technology and internet columnist for the Guardian. Tim is the author of Scoring Points:How Tesco is Winning Customer Loyalty (Kogan Page, 2003) and Knockoff – the Deadly Trade The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods: The True Story of the World's Fastest Growing Crimewave (Kogan Page, 2007).

His new book Fit to Bust - on company failures - will be published by Kogan Page in 2010.