Patrick is a hands on experienced corporate executive, startup and turnaround expert and management consultant who delivers quick and positive results to small and medium sized businesses or corporate divisions with excellent leadership and team building with experience in the following industries: service and retail industries, transportation, manufacturing, e-waste, direct marketing, media/entertainment, engineering, geothermal energy, intellectual property development - Patrick is extremely versatile across a range of industries and is a problem solving and team oriented engineer and executive. He also has helped several startups get up and running as a founder and CEO and has attract initial rounds of investment - over $25 million. Patrick has worked in North America, Europe, Australia, Middle East and Asia and has advanced graduate degrees in industrial engineering/operations research (M.S) and an M.B.A from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has over 25 years’ experience in various senior executive operational and marketing management positions with Fortune 100 companies including General Electric ($200m P&L responsibility), FedEx (managed largest IS rollout), and Cablevision Systems (NYC) with significant P&L responsibilities. As a consultant and turnaround executive he has been involved in start-up ventures and turnarounds in a variety of industries, including leading edge technologies such as: biomimicry, composite and carbon fiber material engineering, Internet broadband, software parallel processing and VOIP; and with environmental, engineering and manufacturing companies. Most recently, he performed turnaround as CEO for a $15 million machine parts manufacturing company in Wisconsin resulting in the highest revenues and profitability in a half a century.Patrick as inventor has developed the tidal energy technology with 7 patents filed or pending. Patrick has dual US and Irish citizenship.