Patrick Mellody is a strategic consultant and writer. He has combined his interests in technology, politics and entrepreneurship with positions on political campaigns, nonprofits, Capitol Hill, NASA, the Business Software Alliance, the US State Department and Pennsylvania’s Governor Office. Mellody built communication networks to reach out to domestic and international media. He has worked on numerous local, state, federal and presidential campaigns in every role—from a field organizer to campaign manager. He has devised strategies and produced political advertising for US House and Senate candidates and independent expenditures. He has built communication networks with old, new and beta technology for domestic and international media. Mellody has been involved in several start-up companies and is passionate about entrepreneurial policy.