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Patrick Halford

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Builder, Operator, Fractional Exec. Advisor, Speaker.

I help leadership teams, boards, and investors harness fast-moving AI vectors to build businesses, fund growth, and scale what works across portfolios.

What I’m known for

  • Business Builder: Operating models that run, international teams that deliver, EBITA up.

  • AI → P&L: Turn AI speed and impact into levers across every workflow.

  • Partnerships that execute: Corporates, SMEs, startups, gov, universities, investors—one coalition.

Proof & presence

  • Speaking & Moderation: Stages from Brazil to the UAE, California, the UK and Europe (Singularity Group AI expert).

  • R&D → Market: €400M+ secured for 300+ orgs across health, agritech, energy, defence, mobility, robotics, AI.

  • Boards & Advisory: Nordic cybersecurity and drone startups; water-tech senior advisor.

  • Policy & Infrastructure: Advise governments on funding investments in AI, drones, and robotics (including new infrastructure like drone airports).

  • Author: Six books, including two on the business of AI.

Who this helps

  • Private Equity, Holding companies, VCs & Investors

  • CEOs and Leadership teams of SME & mid-caps.

  • Governments, universities and research institutions.


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Impacts on offer:

Accelerate revenue & profit with AI

Turn AI into a capital accelerator. I help leadership teams identify and deploy practical AI levers across sales, ops, finance, and service—collapsing cycle times, unlocking capacity inside current budgets, and compounding EBITA. Expect repeatable plays you can roll across business units and portfolios, not slides: faster quote-to-cash, tighter pricing and forecasting, AI-assisted selling, and workflow automation that frees people to drive growth.

Accelerate commercialisation of R&D & attract inward investment

Move from lab to market with cross-border firepower. I’ve led €400M+ in European R&D consortia funding for 300+ SMEs, corporates, and universities across health, agritech, energy, defence, mobility, robotics, and AI. I assemble executable coalitions, structure the capital stack (public + corporate + VC/PE), and target infrastructure where needed (e.g., drone airports). The result: bankable roadmaps that de-risk tech transfer and pull in investors, customers, and partners.

Practical executive coaching for an AI-first mindset

No buzzwords—just operating discipline. I coach CEOs, CFOs, boards, and portfolio leaders to spot fast-moving AI vectors, translate them into P&L levers, and run 90-day EBITA sprints. You’ll get decision frameworks, governance guardrails, and a cadence that scales across teams without exhausting the organisation. The goal: measurable gains this quarter, and a culture that keeps compounding.

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