Dr. Huddie manages the Chesapeake Emerging Opportunities Club, an early stage investment fund based in Columbia, Maryland, and is an investment banker with Evergreen Capital, LLC., advising corporations on mergers, acquisitions and finance.  From 1991 to 2000 he founded and led a number of high technology ventures.

From 1988 to 1991, Dr. Huddie researched the molecular bases of learning and memory at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.  Prior to this time, he conducted biophysical and pharmacological research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and the Universities of Rhode Island, Nottingham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Dr. Huddie holds an honors degree in Physiology and a doctorate in Biophysics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and is a past member of the Biophysical Society, the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, and the Society for Neuroscience.   He serves as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation.

Patrick served on the Executive Committee of the High Technology Council of Maryland from 1995 to 2002.  He was a Director of the Howard County Economic Development Authority from 1996 to 2003 and was President of the Maryland Association of Community Colleges from 2003 to 2005.  Dr. Huddie has served on the Board of Trustees of Howard Community College since 1998; he chaired the board from 2006 to 2008.