Selling all kinds of things from an early age, Patrick has grown a love to sell new things in challenging markets. His experience at venture-backed PayScale.com gave him insights in how to sell a premium solution on a long term contracts for all sizes of companies. Combined with his passion for entrepreneurship and building/leading teams, Patrick knows his limits but also how to partner with experts to supplement his skills, & ultimately succeed.

Full Stack Software Engineer with more than 8 years of experience at the largest of software companies (MSFT) to development focused mid-size companies in Seattle. As CTO of VendorHawk, Brian is passionate about building a product customers actually want and empowering autonomous, cross-functional software teams. In whatever he does as CTO, Brian strives to be as un-CTO as possible.