Patrick is a Dutch born fast-paced visionary, passionate, forward-thinking, serial-entrepreneurial and intuitive senior business leader, executive coach, business mentor and agent of change with a proven track record of achievement in a career that spans over 20 years in sales management, deal making, solution development, strategic consulting, operations, finance, innovation, marketing and hands-on leadership positions.
He has extensive experience in building companies, business units and brands. Patrick has started, managed & rapidly developed high-growth companies including technology start-ups and large enterprise corporations. He has extensive experience with new venture finance, development and operations across IT&T, FMCG, new media and financial services.
Patrick is a “rainmaker” with the ability to increase productivity and innovation through the alignment of the available strength, identify and secure profitable new business and build valuable strategic partnerships. He has a reputation for being highly energetic, authentic and optimistic with excellent team building, organisational, time management, leadership, interpersonal, financial, problem solving, communication and relationship building skills.
Over the last 15 years, Patrick has held senior leadership positions with responsibility for the USA, Europe, Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region, including P&L responsibility for up to US$350M and 675 people. He has held various senior executive leadership roles within technology market leaders such as Dell, ScanLaser, Cambridge Technology Partners, EDS, Unisys and Hewlett-Packard. In his most recent corporate role Patrick was the Head of Application & Consulting Services at EDS/HP Enterprise Services. In the last phase of his corporate career Patrick generated over $800 million in new business revenue.
As of the age of 14 Patrick has started, founded and co-founded 10 companies, ranging from medical services, bio-energy, motorbike imports and luxury goods, to technology services, web services and software applications. He has been instrumental in over 30 start-ups, 4 mergers & acquisitions as well as numerous fund raising activities.
Since July of 2009, Patrick is the CEO at Seed Accelerator where he and his team help start and rapidly grow a select number of technology organisations across the Asia Pacific region and they provide unique innovation programs to enterprise organisations.
He is a partner at 8P Capital - a boutique seed-stage investment firm -, he is the founder at Dutchdown - a successful life branding & events company - and he holds various positions as director or non-executive director within technology ventures.
As inspirational speaker, executive coach and business mentor Patrick helps many organisations and individuals to improve their performance and deepen their learning’s. He's specialised in leadership development, application development, team building, entrepreneurship and innovation management.
He likes to spend his spare time with friends and family, sailing, playing golf, cooking, painting, updating his Helping You Succeed blog, writing new leadership books and using social media platforms to inspire and help other people: e.g. he has over 14.000 direct contacts on LinkedIn, over 10.000 followers on Twitter and he is the moderator of a wide range of online special interest groups.
LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/patrickdriessen
Blog: http://www.helpingyousucceed.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PatrickDriessen
Company: http://www.seedaccelerator.com
