Jenn Patterson

Jenn Patterson

Jenn Patterson

Chief Marketing Officer, NEXT Canada

Bio

Jenn is a seasoned and passionate marketing leader with 15 years of advertising and corporate experience. She has built brands and full scale marketing campaigns for organizations like TD, Google and HomeSense. During her tenure at Google she had the opportunity to lead the Go North Technology Summit and developed a passion for entrepreneurship. Jenn witnessed first hand the phenomenal, game changing work happening across the Canadian ecosystem and knew that she needed to stay close to these inspiring individuals and foster their success in a meaningful way.

Jenn has found her home at NEXT where she leads all aspects of brand, PR and storytelling. She is responsible for ensuring more Canadians know about the impactful work led by our alumni, for building program awareness and for fostering the next generation of great Canadian entrepreneurs.

Jenn holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management where she had the privilege of acting as President of the Rotman Marketing Association. Beyond work and education, she is dedicated to living a well balanced life (but will be the first to tell you how hard that is) prioritizing her young daughter, family and friends at every chance.