Born in Manhattan in 1976 and raised on the North Shore of Long Island, Republican Philip "Flip" Pidot is proud to be a lifelong New Yorker, currently living in the heart of Turtle Bay. As an accomplished financial professional, Flip is committed to bringing real-world solutions to the complex problems affecting the lives and livelihoods of the people and businesses in New York.
     Flip's professional experience includes investment management, strategic business consulting, new venture development, and corportate fraud investigation. His career began with Arthur

Andersen's elite Business Risk Consulting practice, where he led projects supporting some of the most prominent investigations of major corporate fraud and other white collar crimes, working with U.S. Attorneys, the F.B.I., and the S.E.C.
     Flip currently works in investment management, focusing on companies in out-of-favor industries and those facing corporate governance problems. A great supporter of local entrepreneurship, Flip has amassed extensive and wide-ranging small business experience.
     In recent years, he has served as a strategic consultant for several young companies in New York, in fields including education, hospitality, retail, e-commerce, and entertainment media. He also had the opportunity to perform volunteer consulting services for lower Manhattan businesses that found themselves suddenly unprofitable in the post-9/11 downturn that afflicted the neighborhood.

     Flip holds a M.B.A. from the University of Virginia's Darden Business School, where he founded Virtual Asset Exchange, winning the school's Business Concept Competition and earning a place in the Darden Progressive Incubator. Earlier, Flip received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame, wherer he enjoyed serving his fellow students as President of this residence hall.