Patrick is Managing Partner for the Ministry of Defence in the Netherlands since October 3rd 2023. He holds a Bsc. in Business Economics - General Management and a MSc in Total Quality Management. Patrick started at IBM in 1997 as project manager, and throughout his subsequent career held various business and executive delivery management positions for large international clients such as ABN AMRO, Fiat Group (Italy) and Novartis (Switzerland), more recently he was Managing Director for Kyndryl Netherlands and IBM GTS BeNeLux General Manager.Patrick has more than 20 years experience in Total Quality Management and IT. He has comprehensive knowledge in IT infrastructure and service delivery, experience in Data Center Service Delivery, Project and Service Management. His expertise spans all area’s of IT infrastructure from Mainframe, Midrange, storage, Cloud solutions and Network management to management of Global Data Center Operations and IT services off shoring to India, South Africa, Argentina, Czech Republic, Romania and Poland. In his current position he is based in Amserdam, The Netherlands