Yoo! 👋🏾 I'm Ace Patterson (also known as “Call Me Ace”), and I'm an award-winning businessman and creative entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in strategy & operations, marketing, technology, music, and gaming.
Quick Resume Highlights
- BA from Columbia University (Sociocultural Anthropology)
- MBA from UC Berkeley-Haas (specializations: Strategy, Marketing, and Global Management) | semester abroad at IESE (Barcelona, Spain)
- Worked at Deloitte Consulting (Strategy & Operations), Facebook/Meta (Consumer Marketing), and Google/YouTube (Music Label & Publisher Partnerships Development)
- Debuted #3 on iTunes Top 40 US Hip-Hop Chart & #50 Billboard Hip-Hop Album Sales Chart (2019)
- Noted as 1 of 20 Black Artists Who Are On The Rise in 2021 & 2022 by Symphonic Distribution
- Top 10 semi-finalist in BET Music’s 2021 BET AmpliFind national talent competition
- 1 of 10 Founders selected for the 2023 Techstars Music Accelerator program
- 2024 Finalist for US Black Tech Achievement Gaming Award (sponsored by J.P. Morgan)
Education
- Master of Business Administration (Specialization in Marketing, Strategy, and Global Management) – University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2016)
- Master of Business Administration semester exchange program – IESE Business School (2015)
- Bachelor of Arts in Socio-Cultural Anthropology – Columbia University (2011)
Alumnus Organizations
- ADCOLOR (2019)
- Columbia University (2011)
- Columbia University Society of Hip-Hop (CUSH) [Founder - 2009]
- The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management (2014)
- Greens Farms Academy (2007)
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (2016)
- Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) (2014)
- Techstars (2023)
- UC Berkeley (2016)
Current Advisory & Board Positions
- CoMuse (May 2024 - Present)
Current Volunteering & Mentorship
- The Recording Academy – Grammy U Mentor (Oct 2022 - Present)
- UC Berkeley Haas – Consortium Mentor (Oct 2022 - Present)
- Black In Gaming – LA Chapter Event Support (Aug 2023 - Present)
Skills, Tools & Platform Experience
- Productivity Tools: Airtable, Google Suite, Jira, Microsoft Suite, Trello, Workflowy, Zapier
- Design & Creativity Tools: Adobe Suite, Canva, CapCut, Figma, Final Draft, Framer, FL Studio, Logic Pro X, Scrivener
- MarTech Tools: Buffer, CoSchedule, Google Analytics, Kit (ConvertKit), Later, Hootsuite, Mailchimp, Metricool, Rebrandly, Socialpilot, TubeBuddy, VidIQ
- Programming Languages: JavaScript, C#, SQL, HTML, CSS
- Development Tools: Unity, Visual Studio Code, Xcode
- Community & Social Media Tools: Discord, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, YouTube
- Spoken Language: English (C2), Spanish (C1), Amharic (A2)
Additional Awards & Honors
- 2025: Won the Bridgeport Film Fest Best Screenplay Award for the script, In The Spotlight, based on characters from Five Mics: The Hip-Hop Trading Card Game
- 2024: Chosen as Finalist for US Black Tech Achievement Gaming Award (sponsored by J.P. Morgan)
- 2023: Selected as 1 of 10 startups for Techstars Accelerator Program (Music)
- 2022: Selected to speak/perform at TEDx Berkeley (Title: “Dream Come True”)
- 2021: Featured in YouTube’s official “Work Diaries” day-in-the-life blog entry
- 2020: Raised and donated $10,000 from album release, Working From Home: Extended, to combat racial injustice in the United States
- 2019: Won the Facebook Consumer Marketing Marketing Merit Award for co-developing marketing campaign review process
- 2019: Chosen as 1 of 30 (out of 400+ applicants) to join ADCOLOR FUTURES class for marketing excellence
- 2017: Won 3rd place in Deloitte's internal global pitching competition (solution: how media & entertainment companies can more effectively utilize robotics and artificial intelligence to improve audience segmentation/targeting)
- 2014: Winner of National Strategy Consulting Competition in Vancouver, Canada
- 2007 - 2011: Published author at Columbia University: The Columbian (2007); Columbia Undergraduate Journal of Anthropology (2011)