Patrick is responsible for 3i's external and internal communications. 3i is a FTSE100 company and a leading international venture capital company with 28 locations in Europe, Asia Pacific and the US.

3i has a long record of successfully backing entrepreneurial teams to start ups, growing existing businesses and undertaking buy-outs and buy-ins. Patrick joined 3i in 1985 and has had a wide and varied career, doing deals, building up their management buy-in activity in Europe and, more recently, as part of the senior team. He is probably best known for growing 3i’s Independent Directors’ Programme into a leader in appointing and developing chairmen and non-executive directors in 15 countries.

He is a regular speaker and commentator on boardroom issues, including "Managing Board Disharmony". He is also the author of three books, "Running Board Meetings", “Tolley’s Non-executive directors’ handbook” and “Directors’ Dilemmas”. The latter has been described by Sir John Harvey Jones as ‘a major contribution to the thinking director’s education’.

Before joining 3i he spent time in the chemical industry with Air Products and at Cranfield getting his MBA. He is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management, a member of the CBI’s London Council, a member of the DTI Secretary of State’s Panel on Monitoring the Economy and a Trustee of the charity LEAP – Confronting Conflict.

Patrick was born in Liverpool and has a degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Warwick University.