How to Teach Creativity & Innovation

Overview

Patrick teaches a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Family Business courses. He is currently teaching two highly experiential elective classes: SI340 Family Business Management and SI250 Ideas to Impact. SI340 is intended for students across BU who are seeking to understand intergenerational family businesses, innovation, governance, succession, and investment across a variety of cultures, sectors and ecosystems. SI250 is a gateway to BU’s Top 4 I&E Minor - it blends community, relationship management, creativity, innovation, and problem solving or design thinking. Patrick is also an active mentor at the BUild Lab / Innovate@BU, faculty advisor to clubs (e.g., TAMID, Biz Buzz), public speaker (e.g., TEDxBU / Howard Thurman Center), and advisor to students, working adults, alumni, and multiple nonprofits.

Patrick has almost 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, teacher, and mentor. His global family business / office, institutional and nonprofit career spans a variety of industries. He is the founder and Managing Director of The PEGA Group, a Boston and New York-based operating, investment and advisory firm. He previously worked as an investment banker in Salomon Brothers / Citigroup’s Global Telecom and European M&A Groups as well as an investment analyst at the International Finance Corporation. Patrick received a B.S. in Economics, cum laude, from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from INSEAD. He grew up between New York, Nice and Beirut, and speaks French, Spanish and Arabic. When not on campus, you’ll often find him at the beach, exploring a new neighborhood or experimenting with a new recipe.