| Website | patrickdriessen.com |
| Blog | helpingyousucceed... |
| @PatrickDriessen | |
| Birthplace | Alkmaar, The Netherlands |
Patrick is a fast-paced visionary, passionate, forward-thinking, entrepreneurial and intuitive senior executive business leader, entrepreneur, 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, strategic consulting, operations, finance, 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 has extensive experience with new venture finance, development and operations, across IT&T, FMCG, new media and financial services.
Proven and tested leadership in managing high performance leadership, sales, solution development, finance and delivery teams in various regions around the world. Reputation for being highly energetic with excellent organizational, time management, leadership, interpersonal and problem solving skills. Award-winning “Rainmaker†able to continuously create demand, secure more new business and build valuable strategic partnerships.
Some of his specialities are: Taking people and businesses on a rapid growth journey. Business & organisational transformation. Starting up and building new technology businesses. Strategic execution & executing strategy. Commercial turn-around strategies. Coaching & Mentoring. Management & consultancy of technological and financial innovation. Commercial and P&L management. Business- finance- and IT-Consulting. BPO & IT-Outsourcing. Idea Leadership. Helping people & businesses to succeed. Software development & systems integration and creating and driving innovation.
He’s passionate and dedicated to helping fellow leaders, coaches and entrepreneurs to succeed faster & better!
In Patrick’s entrepreneurs career he has started, grown, nurtured and sold a range of businesses. Over the past 10 years he has also been involved in many other start-ups as co-founder, investor, mentor and/or non-executive director.
In his corporate career he has held various leadership roles for technology companies such as Dell, Cambridge Technology Partners, HP, Unisys and EDS. His most recent leadership role was Head of Application & Consulting Services at EDS in Australia & New Zealand.
Patrick is currently working on various new start-ups, is advising and coaching various fellow entrepreneurs and is helping several corporates with innovation and leadership development.
Patrick was educated at the Haarlem Business School in The Netherlands. He has completed several trainings on sales leadership, general management, leadership development, coaching, finance management, business mentoring, investment management, marketing, technology, security, alliance management, content management, risk management and people management.
