Patrick graduated from Oxford University with a first class honours degree in Chinese, and then spent several years at Bain & Company, a top tier strategy consultancy, consulting across industries including telecoms, petroleum, consumer goods and private equity.

Patrick regularly attends and guest speaks at international and domestic conferences, markets and trade fairs, and brings creativity and energy to a variety of television and cinema-release projects that have won awards at Sundance, Berlin and Venice (and Guangzhou, Beijing and Bangkok) Film Festivals.

More recently Patrick has moved beyond Greater China, setting up a new office in Bangkok to service south-east Asia. He now splits his time between Beijing and Bangkok.