• About Patrick

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  • Patrick H. Perrine is a multi-time founder and operator with experience building, scaling, and exiting founder-led businesses across consumer, technology, and services. He works in a fractional operating capacity with leadership teams during periods of growth, complexity, or transition — focusing on execution, operational clarity, and sustainable scale.

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  • Empowering Insights in Every Page

    Patrick is the author of multiple books on entrepreneurship and leadership. His writing reflects real-world operating experience and has been used by founders as a practical companion to execution — not theory.

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What I Do

Fractional COO & Operating Partner for founder-led companies navigating growth, complexity, or transition.

How I Work
Fractional COO & Operating Partner
Fractional COO & Operating Partner

I step in alongside founders to align leadership and execution, stabilize operations, translate strategy into action, and remove bottlenecks as the company scales.

How I Work

Operating Philosophy

Patrick H. Perrine

Companies usually don’t stall because the vision is wrong — they stall because execution gets overloaded, priorities blur, and the founder becomes the bottleneck. My work is to bring structure, clarity, and momentum when growth creates complexity.

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CLARITY

Define the real priorities, make tradeoffs explicit, and align the team around what matters now.

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STRUCTURE

Build operating rhythm, ownership, and systems that reduce chaos and support repeatable execution.

3
MOMENTUM

Turn strategy into action, remove blockers, and help the business scale without burning out the founder or team.

Real
Recommendations

Yes, Patrick is visionary. Yes, Patrick has keen entrepreneurial spirit. He is thoughtful, creative and smart. The thing about Patrick is his charm and grace under pressure. This ability makes him a fierce leader, negotiator, and business force to be reckoned with. If you want to succeed, find a way to get Patrick’s ear.

Steven Spencer-Steigner

VP Qualitative Insights

He is an incredibly innovative entrepreneur. Patrick understands the need for visionary thinking to drive business results. Strategic and scrappy barely begin to describe Patrick’s ability to identify new business opportunities and deliver results.

Chris Sinton

StartOut Board Chair Emeritus

Patrick is a relentless entrepreneur adept at recognizing market opportunities and crafting strategies to bring targeted products to market. He possesses a rare combination of marketing savvy, strategic planning and execution that allows him to effectively deploy focused campaigns while not losing sight of the big picture.

Andrew Tilbury

CEO of Soho Advisors

Patrick is a visionary and energetic entrepreneur and leader. He possess a rare combination of big-picture thinking and keen focus on the steps needed to get there. He can rally and manage internal teams for performance and external agencies to execute his ideas. Watching him in action is amazing.

Christine Lehtonen

VP Business Development @ Seigel + Gale

When Growth Gets Heavy

Founder-led companies often reach a point where progress slows — not because the idea is wrong, but because the system needs support. That’s when I step in.

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