Patrick X.W. Van Gorder is Chief Partnership Officer at Level Agency, where he leads the organization’s growth ecosystem—building strategic partnerships that connect ambitious clients with the most innovative platforms, technologies, and collaborators in digital marketing.
As a founding member of Level’s leadership team, Van Gorder has helped shape the agency’s evolution from a boutique digital shop into one of the nation’s leading integrated digital marketing organizations. Today, his mandate is to position Level as a Growth Systems Integrator—aligning the agency’s capabilities with industry-defining partners such as Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and The Trade Desk to unlock new forms of value, innovation, and scale.
He is responsible for driving growth through partnership commercialization, client innovation, and channel alliances that advance Level’s mission to deliver epic wins for its clients.
Van Gorder attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a dual B.A. in Journalism and Political Science. A son of missionary parents, he grew up across five countries on three continents before settling in Pittsburgh’s East End, where he lives with his wife Sophia and daughters Pearl and Iris.
