Patrick Drew

Patrick Drew serves as Co-Founder & Partner at Next Step Capital Partners. Patrick's experience spans more than twenty years, including executive and entrepreneurial roles at Accenture, Trilogy Development Group, and i2 Technologies. Most recently, he has been an active angel investor in the Austin area. In the course of his 10 years at Accenture, Patrick collaborated with a number of global clients, driving the implementation of new technologies into large corporate environments. Straight out of Silicon Valley startups, these new technologies later inspired Patrick to join Trilogy as VP of Client Services. As employee 13 at Trilogy, Patrick helped grow the company to approximately 100 employees while dramatically improving profitability for the group. Patrick later joined i2 Technologies as employee 21, holding a variety of posts in a 9-year period. i2 rapidly grew to 5000 employees, approximately $1 billion in annual revenue, and went public - all while redefining the supply-chain management space globally. Patrick's responsibilities at i2 included driving sales expansion into new industry and geographic markets and, later, leading the High-Tech Business Unit in Central Europe. Patrick's recent angel investments include BME - an orthopedic implant start-up in San Antonio, Challenge Games in Austin (recently sold to Zynga), and Hellfire Games which recently released Novus Prime for the Sony PlayStation. Patrick received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.