His erivatives.com group has also been busy in areas other than magazine publishing during 2004 with the launch of his new Company Annual Reports Service http://www.bourseinformation.com and the takeover of Europe’s leading financial book store, the FinancialWorld Bookshop in the City of London.

Formerly a broker and analyst, Patrick remains a passionate innovator, and has been heavily involved in the development and promotion of new products including single stock futures, and exchange sports trading. He’s a director of the world’s first Essential Oils Exchange (http://www.eoex.net) and the Swiss Futures & Options Association. He is the Editor of the SFOA’s 25th anniversary book ‘An Intangible Commodity’ which is being published at this year’s Burgenstock meeting.

Patrick is a regular guest on CNBC Europe Squawkbox and a media commentator in leading financial journals and digital media.

He lives in Monaco, although is more often to be found in airport lounges. Remarkably, he actually found time for some rallying this year although admittedly not in his own car…

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