Pat leads the Los Angeles Regional Small Business Development Center Network (LA SBDC) serving small businesses in the counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura. He has led the LA SBDC since 2016 and grown the Network to a team of 200, serving approximately 10,000 small business entrepreneurs each year. Pat is a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and served in the Artic onboard a polar icebreaker ship. In addition to the SBDC, he has worked in the craft brewing industry, advertising/public relations, renewable energy/climate change mitigation, and is also a small business owner himself – operating a mobile event craft cocktail service from a restored 1961 Airstream trailer.