Philip Andrew Clarke (born 8 March 1960) is a British businessman.

He served as the chief executive officer of Tesco plc until 1 September 2014.

[1] He was born in Liverpool, where his father was a Tesco store manager on the Wirral for many years, and gave Clarke his first job as a schoolboy in 1974.

[6] In July 2014 Philip announced that he was leaving Tesco's board, effective 1 October 2014, which was brought forward to 1 September 2014.

[7] Clarke was due to have a party celebrating 40 years at Tesco but this was cancelled the day before suggesting that the departure came sooner than expected.