Pat is the founder of Lockhart investments, a commercial real estate company. Pat has been an investor, broker, and consultant specializing in turnaround of underperforming assets, mainly hotels, restaurants and sports bars. He has built and currently maintains strong relationships with diverse financial institutions and investor groups, and is known as an innovative problem solver with over 4 billion worth of highly diverse transactions over a span of 47 years. Pat is currently working on several pay it forward projects. All in late-stage development, these are three groundbreaking technology-driven public service innovations:Pat is Managing Partner for “Ultimate Data Watch”, a new life-saving technology for intervening in and preventing alcohol & drug relapse and overdose deaths https://www.ultimatedatawatch.com (currently locked - please request passcode)Pat is founder and COO of https://www.worlddebatingforum.com, an interactive platform specifically designed for multilingual, multicultural debate. Pat is CEO of http://www.voterstownhall.com an innovative fundraising/communications platform designed to empower politicians to communicate with their voters independent of traditional social media platforms, and standard fundraising. Pat writes and publishes books, videos, blogs and ideas that he and many others, both educators and businesspeople, believe in passionately. Pat is the author of a five-volume series of books on debating as an educational innovation in the classroom and business innovation in the boardroom. Pat is also the executive producer of numerous videos on debating and related topics.Pat's recent books include an innovative series of guides to the new educational phenomenon of across-the-curriculum, in-class debating. These very old/very new techniques are giving kids new ways to have fun and learn more in both virtual and brick & mortar classrooms but are especially relevant in the new world of virtual learning that Pat makes available free to members of the worlddebatingforum.com website.https://www.amazon.com/Grade-School-Classroom-Debate-Teacher-ebook/dp/B089DMRTK1/https://www.amazon.com/High-School-Classroom-Formal-Debate-ebook/dp/B089DPZF9F/https://www.amazon.com/School-Debate-Foundations-Creative-Fundraising-ebook/dp/B089DM15TY/Pat is always looking for compatible people and organizations of high integrity to work with whether as partners, clients, collaborators, investors – or simply as interested supporters.