Patrick Snyder has tremendous experience running social and for-profit ventures. His largest wins are in the area of organizational GROWTH. At the age of 27 Patrick started, grew and sold Shoreline Magazine. The publication went from having two to 20 employees in roughly three years with Patrick as Founder and CEO. As Executive Director, He transformed The Illinois Travel and Tourism Association, Visit Illinois, from a 30-member club into a federation of Illinois Tourism Associations with a membership in the 100s-of-thousands while increasing the budget by a factor of 6!Patrick has excellent consulting and operations experience. While working with Billionaire, Best Selling Author Steve Kaplan, Patrick and Steve focused on “Consulting for Growth” for small to mid-size companies, associations and chambers of commerce--Patrick also performed Big Client Sales and Customer Service Training Events and consulting for companies like Panasonic, AT&T, Frito Lay and Oracle.Patrick is a former Adjunct Professor at Kendall College, and Roosevelt University. As an educator, he is constantly searching for ways to enrich the lives of students. Patrick is also a published contributing author in the highly acclaimed book, The Start-up Student and has served on the Advisory Boards of several companies.Patrick served as Executive Director of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship for 5 years, where he grew reserves from 28K to over 500K during that time! Currently, Patrick is the President of BizStarts and the Founder of BizStarts Community Market and BizStarts Institute. BizStarts supports Entrepreneurship in underserved communities and provides education, training, one-on-one coaching and connections to resources. All services are free of charge. Revenues and impact have tripled at BizStarts since Patrick took over.Patrick has BA in Communications from Eastern Illinois University, an IOM designation from the US Chamber's Institute for Organizational Management at the University of Notre Dame and holds a graduate certificate in leadership from the University of Wisconsin Madison.