Neal Patterson

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Neal L. Patterson is CEO of Cerner Corporation, a Kansas City-based medical software corporation.

Cerner was founded in 1979 by Patterson with Paul Gorup and Cliff Illig. Patterson was featured in a USA Today article, Scandals lead execs to 'Atlas Shrugged', as a member of a friendly group of CEOs who have a working knowledge of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. He was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha at Oklahoma State University.

On August 31, 2006, Patterson and five other individuals purchased the Kansas City Wizards, a Major League Soccer team, from Lamar Hunt. The other members of the ownership group are Illig, Rock Island Capital’s Robb Heineman, Greg Maday and David French, and Pat Curran, founder of C3 Holdings. The group intends to keep the Wizards in the Kansas City area.

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