Mr. Patrick Kane is the founder and President of PeoplePawn. Mr. Kane has had a successful career in both international as well as national retail operations. After leaving Keeble College (Oxford, England) and graduating through The Burton Group Plc, Graduate Management Training Program, Patrick held a number of senior management operations positions within the 1200 store chain, and spent his last three years through 1995 managing the flagship stores in Oxford Street, London.
Since relocating to Seattle in 1996, Mr. Kane has continued applying his operational management skills to both start-up’s and established businesses. From 1996 through 2000, Mr. Kane was Area Operations Manager for Pawn X-Change (www.pawnxchange) where he helped develop the business from a three store base to a 27 store chain within 5 years. During this time frame, Pawn X Change was the recipient of the “Puget Sound Business Journal – Fastest Growing Privately Held Company Award” two years in succession. In 2000 Mr. Kane became National Operations Manager for Bensussen Deutsch & Associates (www.bdainc.com) where he lead the 32-unit retail chain specializing in brand merchandising strategies for Fortune 500 companies such as Bank Of America, Intel, Eli Lilley and Boeing, where single projects exceeded $7.2M in valuation.
In 2001, Mr. Kane was approached by a Seattle entrepreneur Tom Leavitt (www.leavittcap.com) to help develop a new retail service business model for the laundry industry. That year Darcies Laundry (www.darcieslaundry.com) was created as the largest chain of high-end, customer service orientated Laundromats in the Pacific Northwest. After 5 years of building and operating the Darcies Laundry brand in the Seattle market, Mr. Kane has established his own entrepreneurial venture; PeoplePawn.