Philippe Koenig was born in Paris, France, and spent his childhood in Normandy during WWII before emigrating to the U.S. at the age of 12. Following high school he enlisted in the U.S. Army Airborne, and served three years mostly with the 11th Airborne Division in Augsburg, Germany, but including a stint in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1958, with the 187th Airborne Battle Group. Following his Army service he attended the University of California (Berkeley) and Harvard Law School, and then spent the following 45 years as a lawyer based in Boston specializing in antitrust and patent litigation throughout the United States. He and his late wife Sydelle Pittas (also an attorney) retired to Sarasota in 2013. He is quite active in the Rotary Club of Longboat Key (founded by his wife in 2014), and currently manages its food pantry at Tuttle Elementary School.
Philippe Koenig
Secretary