Patrick is the managing director with Baker Tilly’s risk advisory practice. With 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry, Patrick has consistently driven improved financial outcomes for life sciences organizations. Most recently, he served as the gross-to-net (GTN) practice lead for market strategy and navigation.
A seasoned pharmaceutical executive, Patrick has held roles increasing responsibility in both the United States and globally. He most recently served as vice president and chief financial officer, where he led financial operations across the Americas. His career includes key contributions to the full product life cycle of specialty therapeutics.
Throughout his career, Patrick has uncovered critical business drivers impacting profitability by leveraging GTN insights across commercial functions. These insights have supported accounting business partners achieving sustainable profitability and financial reporting success.
- Designed and implemented enterprise wide GTN operating model integrating people, process, technology and data, establishing scalable governance
- Led chargeback and 340 claim validation redesigns, reducing misclassified transactions and improving accrual accuracy
- Developed accounting and compliance policies that aligned finance, access and contracting functions to Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley Act (JSOX) compliance, providing cross functional accountability
- Authored a “Launch GTN Readiness” training playbook used by specialty pharmaceutical companies to align finance, access and distribution functions for new product launches
- Created scenario models to test payer, copay and distribution assumptions, helping biopharma CFOs visualize margin impact of different access and pricing strategies
- Spearheaded integration of how specialty data feeds into finance analytics improving visibility of channel inventory and rebate exposure
- Supported SAP ECC migration for global research and development and commercial teams, standardizing data mapping and improving audit traceability
- Developed reconciliation methodology linking SAP financial reporting with external GTN, and risk and control matrix (RCM) business processing outsourcing (BPO) data sources
