Bio

Former silicon valley entrepreneur and Founding Partner of Alexia Ventures. He is also Venture Partner of 2 VC funds that he led in Brazil (together with DGF's partners), where he backed and helped build some of the top tech companies in the region. Earlier, in Silicon Valley, he founded a mobile payments startup and investment group Delphis Capital, after co-founding and selling a leading e-health company in Brazil. Patrick spent 20 years building and investing in high-growth innovative companies, after working for entrepreneurial thought leaders at the Monitor Company, Seer Technologies, and at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, building teams, strategic planning, product management, marketing strategy, information management, business development, operational best practices and benchmarking, international expansion, change management, customer success, product marketing, competitive research & analysis, ROI, business development, healthcare technology, Internet, IT-enabled services, business services, cloud software, software as a service (SaaS), enterprise software, business intelligence, big data, artificial intelligence (A.I.), and mobile platforms.