Patrick Ward is the Director of Marketing for Rootstrap, a custom design and
development agency that digitally transforms enterprises like MasterClass, Google, and
Quartz. A writer by trade, Patrick has been featured in Forbes, Ad Age, HuffPost & Business Insider. Aside from his role at Rootstrap, Patrick is an accomplished public speaker, teaching LinkedIn workshops at General Assembly and Guest Lecturing at the University of Southern California on AI and Technology Disruption.

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. He earned his Bachelor of Commerce (Liberal Studies), majoring in Marketing and Political Science, from the University of Sydney.