A former state legislator and two-term mayor, Patrick is a nationally recognized strategic advisor who provides critical counsel to the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations, CEOs, members of Congress, governors, mayors, and political donors on a wide range of political and public policy challenges.

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Among his many public policy successes, Patrick was a key architect of the successful strategy to win marriage equality – including the groundbreaking effort spearheaded by Gill Action to score bipartisan wins in states all across America.

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During his time as mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts, Patrick stewarded the rebuilding of the city’s infrastructure and an upgrade of the city’s bond rating after being reelected with more than 80 percent of the vote. Before being elected mayor, Patrick served three terms as a Massachusetts state representative and never missed a roll call, casting more than 1,000 consecutive votes.

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The Stanford Social Innovation Review recently published Patrick’s op-ed urging the nation’s leading charitable organizations to step more powerfully into the public policy arena. He has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, appeared on major news programs on cable and network television, and lectured at colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe.

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Patrick is the recipient of the U.S. Mayor’s Association 2000 City Livability Award for his nationally recognized “Civility Initiative” and the 1998 Fenn Award for Political Leadership from the John F. Kennedy Library’s New Frontier Society.

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A native of Melrose, Massachusetts, Patrick resides in Boston.