Patrick Livanos Lester

ALLi Author Member

Patrick Livanos Lester is the author of Flat Broke in Paradise, the first novel in the Nick Thomas Adventures Series. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Patrick received a research fellowship at NASA Ames Research Center and joined a team designing collision avoidance systems and cockpit traffic displays for commercial aircraft. Later at NASA, he designed flight crew training for a space shuttle flight and managed space station flight and ground operations for non-human life sciences.

In 1989 he moved to Hawaii and from there traveled to Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific as a business consultant. While in Hawaii he taught sailing and raced yachts.

In the late 1990s, he returned to California and worked as a business development consultant to more than forty companies in the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia during the dot-com era. Patrick was an Executive Advisor to The Enterprise Network, a NASA-funded business incubator in the Silicon Valley. He also served on the boards of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, the Electric Vehicle Association of Hawaii, the Hayward Arts Council, and the Discovery Space Technology Center at Stanford. He was an Associate Partner at SG Capital Partners, a Geneva-based merchant bank.

Patrick has been writing most of his life and has published short stories and twenty-three poems in Infinity Limited, a family-run literary magazine. He has published numerous professional articles, a few in refereed journals.

Patrick holds a Graduate Gemologist designation from the Gemological Institute of America, is a licensed California real estate broker, painter, and sculptor.

Patrick lives with his wife Kim in California and Hawaii and other places with sailboats and palm trees.