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“The board met and realized that he didn’t know anyone who would be a better fit for the position than internal candidate Patrick Longo,” says HCDC Board Chair Tim Blankenhorn. “His more than two decades of service at HCDC, his experience of working with startup businesses and fellow startup ecosystem organizations in southwest Ohio, and his years of experience as Director of the HCDC Business Center made him the obvious choice.”

As Director of HCDC’s Business Center, a startup incubation program focused on the physical/applied sciences, engineering, and information technology, Longo aided in the development and growth of more than 300 entrepreneurial entities since 1997.

Longo has also been honored as Cincy Magazine’s 2017 Cool Tech Champion, the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 2007 Ohio Financial Services Champion of the Year, was a member of the Cincinnati Business Courier’s 2003 Forty Under 40 class, and was featured in a Business Courier “One of 30 New Bosses to Watch in 2019” article. His professional areas of expertise include strategic planning, plan implementation, finance, marketing, business development, and access to capital.

Longo is community-focused. He is a CoMade board member, an advisory board member for the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, a founding member/board member of the Cincinnati Minority Business Collaborative, and is on the advisory committee of the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering & Applied Sciences.