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Patrick Fleming serves as TechNet’s Director of Federal Policy and External Affairs.  Based in Washington, D.C., Fleming directs TechNet’s major efforts related to artificial intelligence and plays a key role in the design and execution of TechNet’s comprehensive federal advocacy, campaign, marketing, and communications strategies.

Fleming has over a decade of federal policy and public affairs experience.  He began his career in Washington on Capitol Hill as an intern for U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and staff assistant to U.S. Representative Sue Myrick (R-NC).  He went on to serve as a senior policy advisor to U.S. Representatives Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Mike Pompeo (R-KS), handling both Energy and Commerce and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee work.  In 2017, after leading U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo’s confirmation and transition process as the incoming CIA Director, Fleming joined a strategic communications and government affairs firm, where he represented clients in the technology, transportation, energy, and national security industries with a combined focus on government relations, strategic communications, and media strategy.

Fleming, a North Carolina native and Eagle Scout, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media with a second concentration in Economics.  While at Chapel Hill, Patrick served on the editorial board of the Daily Tar Heel and was President of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Beta) fraternity.