Patrick McKenna is Chief Commercial Officer at Kurtosys, the platform investment managers use for client, digital and regulatory communications. A technical leader who has built the platform from the ground up, McKenna combines deep knowledge of how technology can improve operational efficiency within investment management firms. McKenna joined Kurtosys in 2013 and has held senior roles across product, sales and commercial leadership, including Head of Product Management, Global Head of Sales and Product Management, and Chief Product Officer before his current role. Before Kurtosys, he was President of Cloudmetrx, where the business applied supercomputing and machine learning to portfolio valuation and risk for banks and hedge funds. He spent six years at PerTrac Financial Solutions, latterly as a Director running institutional allocator and fund manager relationships, and began his career as a software developer, building portfolio and order management technology for hedge funds and implementing trading and reporting systems across New York, Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney.