Born in London, 1968, Patrick has built a number of successful hardware and communications technology businesses. A technologist, communications industry specialist, and experienced management consultant; he has an innate ability to convert business issues of a strategic nature into operational success.
Patrick currently works as Director of Asset Information for Network Rail. He is responsible for transforming the way the GB rail industry collects, evaluates and maintains infrastructure asset and rail vehicle information, and for helping the industry apply insight from data to make better informed business decisions to balance cost, performance and risk.
Formerly, until late 2010, he was global Director of Market Strategy at $3bn NYSE-listed Convergys Corp, responsible for developing and executing the return-to-growth strategy of the $400m telecoms software and services division. He has long been a thought leader on industry restructuring issues for the Telecoms and Media sector.
From 2004-2007 Patrick was Head of Transformational Outsourcing at Atos Origin, with responsibility for developing major business transformation deals with FTSE100 companies, encompassing Atos Origin’s Consulting, Technology and Managed Operations capabilities. Patrick Joined Atos through the acquisition of KPMG Consulting, where he was Head of e-Business Strategy for the ICE (telco and media) practice from 2000-2004.
Patrick is a founder member of 3gea (the 3G Enterprise Alliance), a member of the Broadband Stakeholder Group, and sits on the CBI's e-Business Council. He also chaired the UK e-business decision support forum etailforum.org during 1999-2002.
In December 1999 Patrick joined ismartlab.com, the internet incubator and European business development arm of US venture capital fund ci4net inc. As Chief Technology Officer he developed market strategies and supporting technical architectures for an investment portfolio of netmarket, communications and digital media ventures.
In 1998 he filed a world-wide patent and raised £1.5m of venture capital to fund a new technology company, Embedded Science, which developed embedded systems diagnostic hardware, software, and internet-based support tools for a global market. The company’s main product, Delta-T Probe, assisted major corporations world-wide with de-risking their embedded systems Y2K compliance programmes and was on display as a feature exhibit at the Science Museum, London from 1999-2004.
Patrick launched Embedded Science as a corporate venture under the auspice of WSP Group plc - a FTSE100 consulting engineering group for which he worked as Technical Director. During this time he used the global go-to-market activity of Embedded Science as a lever to establish new relationships and bases for WSP in Hong Kong and Singapore.
In 1991 Patrick received an Honours Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of York. Following his graduation he co-founded Central Data Control, a specialist integrator of voice, video, computer and embedded systems for the built environment. After ten years of growth, with prestige clients including the Bank of England and Harrods, CDC was bought by Entelec Europe .
Aged 17, during the mid-80’s embryonic home computer era, Patrick financed and co-founded Multi-User Gaming Systems to develop high-performance multi-user on-line gaming platforms. MUGS became one of the first on-line X25 and dial-up Service Providers to appear alongside JANET, the original UK academic Internet.
Aged 12 he wrote You Can do the Cube, his solution to the Rubik’s Cube puzzle, for Penguin Books. It sold over 1.5 million copies and became the global best-seller of 1981.
To contact Patrick, please email Patrick@Bossert.com.