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Patrick S. George
Founder & Managing Partner
President & Board Director, Hover Energy
Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy
Former Director, National Security Council
U.S. Marine Corps Officer
Patrick George is the Managing Partner of Beachwood Ventures. He is also President and Board Director of Hover Energy, which develops and deploys microgrids for on-site generation. During his tenure, Hover moved from research and development to commercial operations, expanded across North America and the United Kingdom, and executed a joint venture with a European public company.
Earlier, Patrick co-founded and served as President of Accelerate Resources, a data-driven energy firm that deployed $135 million in equity, executed more than 180 transactions, and returned approximately $300 million to investors following the sale of its assets.
In 2026, Patrick served as a Director at the National Security Council for Global Supply Chain, responsible for supply chain resiliency across energy, power, the defense industrial base, and advanced manufacturing. Before that, he served as an SES and Senior Advisor for the Secretary of the Navy, leading industry engagement and partnerships to accelerate commercial innovation within the Navy and Marine Corps. He established the Navy's first program office for robotic and autonomous systems, contributed to the SYSCOM and PEO realignment, and structured shared-risk contracting models exceeding $1 billion. He also led the Secretary's initiative to eliminate waste and improve business operations, which achieved $2.5 billion in cost avoidance and $210 million in direct savings.
Patrick served 20 years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, including two combat tours in Iraq as an infantry officer. He commanded a reconnaissance company with 4th Recon Battalion and was a plank holder of the Marine Corps' 'Marine Innovation Unit'. He is a recipient of three Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals.
He is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization and serves on the National Council of the American Enterprise Institute and the Advisory Board of UT Venture Labs.
MBA, Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business (Roy H. Park Leadership Fellow)
BA Economics & Government, University of Texas at Austin
Cornell Johnson's 10 Under 10 Alumni Award · 40 Under 40, Dallas Business Journal · 40 Under 40, Oil and Gas Investor
The Firm
Small by design.
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No outside money
Beachwood invests directly in companies and as a limited partner in specialist venture funds. It manages no outside money and raises no fund, so no investor's timeline sits behind any decision.
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One decision-maker
There is no investment committee and no deployment schedule. We can decide quickly, and nothing forces us to invest when the price is wrong or to sell when the company is not ready.
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Investing since 2018
Beachwood and its affiliated entities have invested since 2018, at the seed and in the rounds that follow, and have followed companies through their Series A and Series B as outside leads set the price.