Patch Paczkowski spent 13 years as a Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps before becoming an entrepreneurship instructor with a PhD in Management, a JD, and an MBA, a combination that lines up closely with IronGate's focus on dual-use technology and includes past work as a consultant for a Goldman Sachs subsidiary. His research has ranged from how technology changes workplace behavior, including a paper on email habits called "Checking email in the bathroom" and a study on telecommuting, to how law and reputation affect financing, such as work on law firms in IPOs and corporate governance in Saudi IPOs, and his teaching centers on hands-on entrepreneurship through live client consulting projects and courses on angel investing and venture capital.