Role: Mentor
Tracks: Digital Health
Patrick Brennan
Founder & Managing Director | Locke Health
Patrick Brennan is the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Locke Health Ventures. He grew up in Cape Cod, MA and is now based in Kansas City. He focuses on driving the strategy, growth and vision of Locke's early-stage venture capital fund and commercial advisory business. Through Locke's VC fund and advisory businesses both Patrick and the Locke Health team actively support the growth of health tech ventures across the country. Prior to Locke, Patrick served as Director of Sales and Business Development at Oracle Health (Cerner), where he led growth and competitive strategy initiatives across the for-profit health system and payer lines of business. He is also a co-founder of Sought Group and FY Summit Capital, investment platforms focused on energy, real estate, and health technology. An avid mountaineer, Patrick has been on climbing expeditions on six continents-including the Himalaya, Andes, and Antarctica-and is an Advanced Open Water scuba diver. Patrick holds a BBA in Quantitative Economics from the University of Iowa.