Speaker Profile

Patrick is the founder of Pinnacle Towers, and Asia-focused digital infrastructure platform.  Via its Frontier Towers subsidiaries, Pinnacle is currently a leading tower company in the Philippines and Bangladesh

 

Before founding Pinnacle, Patrick founded Irrawaddy Green Towers Ltd (IGT), Myanmar’s largest tower company, and created a number of tower portfolios in other ASEAN markets

 

In addition to his experience starting tower companies, Patrick was the founding Chairman of International Campus AG, one of Germany’s first student housing developers, which is now a leading provider of student accommodation in Germany, Czech Republic, Austria and the Netherlands

 

Earlier in his career, Patrick was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Germany, an attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he worked principally on telecom transactions, such as advising the Brazilian government on the privatization of Telebras, the largest privatization in LatAm history at that time, and an investment banker at Citigroup for many years

 

While at Citigroup, Patrick led initiatives in the wireless, tower, and infrastructure sectors and served as co-head of online and mobile software coverage and tower coverage

 

JD Columbia, AB Duke, Fulbright Scholar