After proudly serving four years in the United States Air Force and graduating from Arizona State University, Patrick joined Abbott Laboratories (ABT:NYSE) as a Diagnostic Sales Representative. Patrick was then recruited to join IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX:NASDQ), which is today the world’s largest Animal Health Diagnostic Company. During his tenure at IDEXX, he served in many leadership capacities, including service as Director and General Manager of Austria, Switzerland and Germany, where he resided for three years. While based in Europe, Patrick led the European business unit to record growth. He also traveled to and assisted in training the sales and marketing team for IDEXX Asia. 

After a long and very successful career with IDEXX, he then joined Ventana Medical as the director of a tissue processing group.  Patrick then started his own successful consulting business, before being asked to join Vet-Stem Inc., the world’s largest and most successful Animal Health Stem Cell Biotech Company, as the Vice-President of Sales and Marketing. During his time at Vet-Stem Inc., Patrick brought on a new sales and marketing team, added distribution, national accounts and helped lead an overall business turnaround. Patrick was also responsible for bringing on a new and very important Board of Director member to help guide Vet-Stem, Inc.