Patrick Herridge
Consultant
Patrick is a serial, multi-exit entrepreneur, with a 20 year track record in the marketing and technology sectors.
He founded Parys Communications in 2004, building it into one of the leading media and technology specialist PR agencies in the UK before selling it to MWW PR, one of the US' largest independent PR agencies, in 2014. He then worked as CEO and subsequently Chairman of MWW UK, overseeing a series of acquistions as the company more than doubled in size over a short period.
He was also the co-founder and subsequenrly NED of Social360, the specialist social media monitoring product for corporates. Social360 was succesfully sold to Signal AI in 20245.
Patrick has experience of every stage of the business lifecycle, from foundation and fundraising through to growth and successful exits. Now working as an NED and consultant, Patrick brings a practical, down to earth approach and real-life experience to help growing agencies address the challenges and opportunities that they face.
Patrick works closely with company founders and management teams to provide an external view, helping them to identify the current and future focuses for the business and to help develop effective, achievable solutions to address them.
Over the years, Patrick has worked with some of the biggest brands in media and technology, as well as a vast range of startups and scale ups.