Patrick Dillon: Executive Producer
Patrick Dillon was Stamen’s executive producer from 2010 to 2011, responsible for shaping and managing our long-term aspirations as well as helping drive and sustain our immediate projects. A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, author and editor, and former software executive, he was executive editor California Magazine, and before that he was editor of Forbes ASAP magazine. He also directed web content for Quokka Sports, the digital broadcaster of sporting events, including the Whitbread Round the World yacht race and the Sydney Olympics.
His journalism background includes managing a large metropolitan newsroom—that of the San Jose Mercury News. His columns and essays have appeared in more than 100 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and Fast Company magazine. He is the author of a satirical novel The Last Best Thing and the non-fiction book Lost at Sea, proclaimed one of the best non-fiction books of 1998. His most recent book “Circle of Greed: The Rise and Fall of The Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to its Knees,” has been nominated jointly by the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs as one of the top business books of 2010. He has consulted for the University of Chicago’s publications and MIT’s “Technology Review.”
He owns a farm in Sonoma County, California, where he grows fruit for local restaurants. He also has worked as an assistant in a prestigious Sonoma County wine cellar and crewed and cooked on a crabbing boat in the Bering Sea.