Patrick C. Donohue is a business strategist and entrepreneur who focuses on innovating & launching businesses that create a better world. As an independent consultant and Field Director for the Base of the Pyramid Protocol, Patrick is part of a select group of business professionals working at the grassroots intersection of innovation, poverty, and business. Patrick's work innovating new business models for the base of the world's income pyramid has taken him deep into low-income communities in the U.S., India, Kenya, and Brazil, where he has worked side-by-side with local entrepreneurs and companies to co-create new businesses.
As one of the original implementers of Base of the Pyramid Protocol, Patrick has guided and advised the BoP efforts of companies such as SC Johnson, Solae, Ascension Health, IBM and Natura, and he is a contributing author of the Protocol's 2nd Edition. In 2004 Patrick launched BRINQ, a website that promotes playful innovation in the BoP of Brazil, and he has acted as a development advisor for Rio de Janeiro-based Catalytic Communities, an award-winning organization that links together grassroots innovators from communities throughout the world.
A self-described refugee from the rapid-to-riches dot-com culture, Patrick has managed and developed innovative technology programs for Rockwell International, Apple Computer, and NASA as well as a number of technology start-ups. At Rockwell, Patrick led a team that was awarded the 1999 Rockwell International Team of the Year Award, and his work for NASA was nominated in 2002 for a Turning Goals into Reality Award. Patrick has a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
