Pat is President of Colliers Appelt Womack, Inc in Houston.  Pat relocated to Houston from Florida where he served as President of Colliers Arnold and was responsible for operations in Tampa Bay, Orlando and Southwest Florida.  Pat started his career in 1983 as Director of Marketing a real estate data base software company where he spent three years interviewing top brokerage houses throughout the United States and assisted in their automation needs as a consultant and instructor. As President of Colliers Arnold, he had direct responsibility for recruiting, training and managing the sales and leasing team, property management and client and business plan coordination for the company. He managed the addition of three regional offices, employing over 240 people, with a management portfolio in excess of 14 million square feet and annual transaction volumes  in excess of $1 Billion.

Education
Bachelor of Science - Louisiana State University (Finance / pre-law)
SIOR - Office Brokerage I & II
MCR - Intermediate Finance, MCR - Advanced Finance
MCR – Negotiations, MCR - Surplus Property Disposition
MCR - Retail Site Selection, MCR Enterprise Project Management
ICSC - Lease Language / Legal Issues

Achievements
Pat served five years as the national chairman of the New America Network (NAI) retail specialty group and, upon joining Colliers International,  He was responsible for building and organizing retail service delivery capabilities for Colliers worldwide as chairman of the Colliers Retail Specialty Group (96-2000, 2002-current). Among his academic accomplishments, Pat wrote the capstone case study utilized by the CCIM program's final course offering from 1986 - 1998. The case study combined the marketing and financial concepts taught by CCIM to allow the students to apply the material to a simulated commercial property disposition. He has been an instructor for Nacore's (now CORENET) Intermediate Finance Course and was awarded the Top Rated Faculty Certificate in 2000. Pat is regularly quoted in national and regional publications including the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Newsweek, Real Estate Forum, National Real Estate Investor, Globe Street and others.  He has been an expert panelist for NAIOP, Real Share, ICSC and many other real estate organizations.
 
Pat has served as a member of the Colliers Managers Steering committee and on the Board of Directors for Colliers USA.   In 2003, Pat was awarded Colliers Manager of the Year. In 2004, he was chosen by Colliers International as the Tom Richardson Award recipient, an honor based on strength of character.