Patrick serves as Skytide's Vice President of Marketing. He brings 25 years of marketing and business development experience, with a special focus on digital media, advertising and web services. As SVP of Operations at Salon.com he launched Salon Premium, one of the Web's first successful content subscription services, and led development of the internet's first "day pass"access model. He has also worked in account management for multi-national advertising agencies including JWT and Publicis & Hal Riney, for brands that include Motorola, Sprint PCS and Harley-Davidson. Patrick is a graduate of Marquette University and lives in Oakland with his wife and two children.