Patrick Aylward

Patrick is co-founder and COO of RemitRight. He is an engineer and has an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Patrick has spent the last decade working in international development building systems to bring transparency to opaque markets.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/paylward
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Member since June 08, 2015

Problem solver and activist for access to finance and medicines. Quote_down

About

Education

2012 Yale University , MBA

2001 University of Michigan , MS , Industrial and Operations Engineering

2000 University of Michigan , BS , Industrial and Operations Engineering

I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:

RemitRight, Global Health Systems and Analytics LLC

Companies I work or worked for:

RemitRight, Intel Corporation, World Health Organization, The Global Fund, Hope Through Health

Achievements (products built, personal awards won):

-Managed the development of a web application used in 120+ low and middle income countries to monitor $5 billion+ of pharmaceutical procurement.
-Managed the development of a web application to track patents for HIV medicines across 120 countries. Enabled Medicines Patent Pool, activists and procurement agents to challenge patents and increase access to medicines in low income countries.
-Built a Market Intelligence System for the World Health Organization to monitor the global markets for HIV. malaria and tuberculosis medicines and health products.
-Served as the first Field Director of Hope Through Health. Expanded the organization to serve more than 1,500 HIV-positive patients at five clinics in West Africa.
-Intel Divisional Award for improvements made to manufacturing lines at Intel's primary R&D fab.

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to change the world.

My favorite startups:

Betterment.com, NerdWallet, Kayak, Bankrate.com, Quora, The Department of Better Technology,

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

The most rewarding aspect of innovation is building a concrete solution to help people solve a problem. I am happiest when I'm working with users who are benefiting from my systems. I get most frustrated managing the organizational aspects of starting an organization - accounting, human resources, legal.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Building a solution to a problem that is perceived and not real.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. How to iterate fast
2. How to test ideas and experiment
3. It's a long fight

Full bio

Patrick is co-founder and COO of RemitRight. He has an MBA from the Yale School of Management and an MSE and BSE in engineering from the University of Michigan. After starting his career at Intel, Patrick followed his passion and pursued a career in international development and social justice.

Prior to RemitRight, Patrick helped to launch a community-based HIV/AIDS treatment program in West Africa; built web application to track and benchmark billions of dollars of pharmaceutical procurement across low income countries; and developed market intelligence systems for the World Health Organization to improve access to medicines. He also was a co-author of the Global Fund's 2012-2016 strategy and has authored key publications and presentations on access to medicines and market dynamics.

When not working on RemitRight, Patrick is a hiker, skier and avid reader.