Patrick Ward

Patrick Ward is the VP of Marketing for Rootstrap, a custom software development agency that digitally transforms companies like MasterClass & Google, along with A-List Celebrities like Tony Robbins & Snoop Dogg, and the Founder of NanoGlobals, an expert-led platform that helps mid-size tech companies tap into global markets through remote hiring, offshoring, and international market expansion.

A writer by trade, Ward's international brand & B2B marketing expertise has been featured in Forbes, Ad Age, Fast Company, Morning Brew, Hacker Noon, HuffPost & Business Insider. He is currently a member of the Forbes Communications Council, an invitation-only organization for senior-level communications executives. He is also the co-chair of the Executive Marketing Channel at Pavilion, formerly Revenue Collective, a private, invitation-only community of sales & marketing executives at growth-focused companies. He also is the Co-Host and Founder of #LinkedInLocalLA, a networking meetup community in Los Angeles, with guest speakers that are LinkedIn Top Voices, Former Google employees, and Amazon best-selling authors.

Ward is an accomplished public speaker, teaching marketing workshops at General Assembly, Nonprofit Learning Lab, Serendipity Labs & California Lutheran University and Guest Lecturing at the University of Southern California on AI and Technology Disruption along with the University of North Carolina on Leadership.

He is the author of “Marketing Transformation: Why Your Marketing Mindset is Holding Your Organization Back”, featured in the Business Leaders Edition, Vol 3. of the Amazon Best-Selling Series “Money Matters”.

He earned his Bachelor of Commerce (Liberal Studies), majoring in Marketing and Government & International Relations, from the University of Sydney.