Pat’s 24 year career in television spans channels, genres and continents, leading News, Sport, Commissioning and Production across ITV, BBC and C4 as well as running a major American cable network, Travel Channel Media.

Pat co-founded Sugar Films in 2016 – with the mission to create bold, popular and provocative programming for modern, mainstream and diverse audiences. Recent productions include Recipes That Made Me for BBC Two, Should I Marry My Cousin (BBC Three) and Gary Younge’s Angry, White and American for Channel 4.

Previous to this, Pat spent four years as Chief Creative Officer for BBC Production, with over £300m in revenues and 3,000 employees. His teams delivered some of the world’s biggest shows including Top Gear, Strictly Come Dancing, Dr Who, Frozen Planet, and Luther. In 2012, under Pat’s leadership, BBC Productions won one third of all the UK BAFTA programme awards, as well as Golden Globes, Emmy’s and RTS Awards.

As President /General Manager of Travel Channel Media USA (2005-2009), Pat led its turn-around by introducing award winning and globally popular brands including Man v Food and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

At BBC Sport, Pat presided over the transformation of the 6 Nations rugby championship, including regular Sunday fixtures, prime-time kick-offs and a tournament climax day now known as Super Saturday. As a result ratings doubled and rugby union is now regularly broadcast in primetime.

Pat has also been a commissioning editor at Channel 4, having started his career in news and current affairs at ITV and the BBC.

Pat has three children, and enjoys sport, movies and Sudoku, is a fellow of the RTS and the RSA, and is slowly writing his debut screenplay.