J. Patrick McDonald
J. Patrick McDonald is an AI and analytics delivery executive with more than 20 years of experience designing and shipping production AI/ML and generative AI systems for Fortune 500 and mid-market organizations. As founder and managing director of Perceptive Strategies Inc., he advises executive teams on where AI creates defensible business value and leads hands-on delivery across retail, CPG, manufacturing and health care. Over his career he has delivered an estimated $7.2B in measurable business impact across 64 engagements, with a 77% production deployment rate—a record built on translating advanced models into operational decisions that change financial outcomes.
His domain depth is concentrated in multi-tier supply chains, demand forecasting and S&OP and inventory and production optimization for perishable and food-adjacent operations. He has led stochastic supply optimization for a major beef processor (identifying $170M+ in margin opportunity), demand forecasting and scheduling work that cut excess inventory by 24% while preventing stockouts, and forecasting and supply-planning programs for clients including McDonald's, Tyson Foods, Keurig/Dr Pepper, Diageo, Caterpillar and Deere.
McDonald works at the current frontier of applied AI, building agentic systems that use LLM-driven agents, tool use and retrieval-augmented architectures for autonomous data analysis and decision support. His recent work spans generative AI clinical decision support, a local Llama 3 solution for automated data-privacy analysis and internal agentic tools applied in live client engagements. He holds an M.S. and B.S. (Honors) in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State University.
Specialty Topics:
- AI clinical decision support
- Local Llama 3 solution for automated data-privacy analysis
- Internal agentic tools