Patrick Heffernan

Mr. Patrick Heffernan is a Practice Manager & Principal Analyst at Technology Business Research, Inc. He directs the practice’s portfolio and manages projects on topics ranging from creating management consulting services to deciphering digital transformation for consultancies and IT services vendors to analyzing the business impact of emerging technologies.
His responsibilities tap his expertise in competitive intelligence, strategy, and global political-economic impacts on business cycles and consulting vendors.
Prior to joining TBR, he was part of a Big Four firm’s competitive intelligence team, conducting fieldwork and analysis.
His professional career started in diplomacy, with Middle East postings as a foreign service officer with the State Department and counterterrorism assignments with the National Security Council and the U.S.
Department of the Treasury.
He received a B.A.
in political science from Washington and Lee University and an M.A.
in diplomacy from the University of Virginia.