As a Founding Partner of 1864 Ventures, I lead a premier venture capital fund based in Alberta, Canada, focused on identifying and accelerating early-stage businesses with transformative potential. My role encompasses strategic leadership, deal sourcing, and fostering relationships with innovative founders and industry experts.

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As the Program Director for our NFT Studio, Patrick is a creative and strategic thinker who loves learning everything there is to know about a client's brand, business, and customer. He has the experience to manage multidisciplinary teams, and knows what it takes to deliver a digital experience that can improve the involvement of customers while surpassing the goals of the client.

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Joined the premier Calgary Ducati dealership to help after the 2008 economic downturn. Ultimately and unfortunately the company was not able to get back to profit and was dissolved.

Made the transition to new management while providing guidance and support for the companies new perspective and direction.

Started the company with an idea and nurtured it all the way to a publicly traded company.Raised $5M. Secured relationships with all major big box retail in Canada. Made the first portable tracking device sold at retail (GPS Snitch). Created the foundations for the company to be the leader in Lone Worker protection (Loner). Developed the first friend tracking software for Blackberry (Blip GPS).

Managed the Mechanical Engineering group.Worked with management, engineering, marketing, manufacturing and QA to create a design language for the companies whole product line.All products needed to meet strict environmental needs for the marine marine, agricultural and surveying markets. RF considerations, materials and durability were also very strong requirements for these high precision tools.Worked with cross-geography vendors and offices.Tools:Solidworks, Photoworks, Photoshop, MS Office

Was part of the initial team for Advanta Design.Designed products for landline phones and future concepts for Nortel, wireless modems for PDA's (Palm, Casio) for Novatel Wireless, office furniture, lighting and structures for SMED International (now Teknion) and more..Co-Inventor for Door Strike Patent http://www.google.com.ar/patents/USD441272Design tools included:Solidworks, Photoworks, Illustrator, Photoshop, pen and paper