Pat O'Donohue founded Aceso Mental Health after being frustrated with the fragmented, isolating current mental healthcare environment. Families and patients are often left to navigate treatment plans by themselves. After that exhaustive and time consuming process, many are often exposed to one treatment protocol, which can work, but often does not meet long term patient needs. Aceso believes that an all-encompassing plan, which includes holistic wellness modalities including, sleep, exercise and nutrition, is superior and will yield better patient outcomes than a plan solely focused on counseling and medicine.
For the previous twenty five years, Pat worked on Wall Street, first as an equity trader, then as a index-arbitrage and event driven analyst, at employee owned Weeden & Co, which was eventually acquired by Piper Sandler. Pat's passion has always been trying to uncover disruptive companies that present asymmetric opportunities; the goal at Aceso is to help build that transformative company. Pat believes that employee owned companies outperform their peers, and that employees, not investors, should benefit from the company's economic wealth creation.
