Patrick Pinschmidt is General Partner with Middlegame Ventures, a financial technology venture capital fund based in Washington DC. Prior to joining Middlegame, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US treasury department, where he served as the first Executive Director of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, focusing on regulatory co-ordination in the post-financial crisis years and managed the Council’s activities spanning 15 agencies across the US financial regulatory system. Prior to his government service, Pinschmidt spent a decade as a sell-side financial institutions and capital markets analyst, where he was the lead analyst at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch for the brokers, exchanges, and financial technology sector. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.