Patrick Thomas

Patrick Thomas co-founded 1790 Analytics in 2004. He has designed data mining solutions for large corporations and financial institutions, focused on many different technological and investment opportunities. He has also developed analytical tools to address a broad range of science and technology policy issues for various government agencies.

Patrick is one of the leading experts on data mining and IP analytics, and their use across a wide range of applications. He has published numerous scholarly articles on technology evaluation, science policy, and investment analysis, and is invited to speak on these subjects at conferences worldwide. He has also testified in federal court as an expert witness on IP analytics.

Prior to co-founding 1790 Analytics, Patrick was a Senior Analyst at CHI Research, before which he was an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Methods at Southampton Business School. He was educated in the UK, earning a B.S. in Management Science from the University of Manchester; an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham; and a Ph.D. in Management Science and Statistics from Nottingham Trent University.