P. Michael Saint
Chairman and CEO

P. Michael Saint is founder, CEO and chairman of The Saint Consulting Group, the world's largest and most experienced firm in the new management consulting discipline of land use politics. After a career in journalism, politics and public relations, he founded the company in 1983 in Massachusetts. Today, it serves clients from 12 offices in the United States, and from one each in the United Kingdom and Canada.

The Saint Consulting Group has worked on more than 950 controversial projects in 44 U.S. states, in Canada and in England. Assignments have included office parks, hotels, hospitals, retail centers, power plants, quarries, landfills, casinos, mixed-use developments, malls, heliports and golf courses. Mike Saint and his colleagues have developed specialized political techniques that help clients generate public support to ensure that they prevail in the local governmental approval process.

A graduate of Holy Cross College with a degree in political science, Mike earned his master's in business administration from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He has done additional study at the University of Chicago Business School and at the Harvard Business School. He, his wife and two daughters live outside Nashville, TN.

Mike belongs to the Association of Management Consulting Firms, the Urban Land Institute, the National Sand, Stone & Gravel Association and the International Council of Shopping Centers. He serves on the board of directors of the Nashville Opera Association and on the advisory board of the Civic Bank and Trust in Nashville.

Mike has been a guest lecturer at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University. He is the author or co-author of articles published in Land Development magazine, Urban Land magazine, Shopping Center Business, the Stone, Sand and Gravel Review, REBusiness Online and Design Intelligence magazine.

He has addressed the International Council of Shopping Centers Conference on Open-Air Centers, the Commercial Retail Council of the Urban Land Institute, the Missouri Limestone Producers Association, the Government Affairs Committee of the National Sand, Stone & Gravel Association, the Ontario Sand, Stone & Gravel Association and the Pennsylvania Gaming Congress and Racing Forum.

Robert J. Flavell
Vice chairman

Robert Flavell is an attorney with wide experience in government, politics, and land-use strategy. Before joining Saint 17 years ago, Bob was executive editor and general counsel for a large newspaper chain. As an attorney, he served in many different capacities, including special assistant attorney general for Massachusetts. He is a member of the Massachusetts, US District Court, and US Supreme Court bars.

Patrick Fox
President

Patrick Fox has been with Saint Consulting since 1998, serving as project manager, division manager and vice president before becoming company president.

Patrick has managed or consulted on hundreds of land use projects across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, adapting state-of-the-art grassroots political campaign techniques to win controversial land use battles.

Patrick developed the Saint Index, the world's only international survey that quantifies and analyzes opposition to development and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Development Magazine, Business 2.0, Electric Perspectives, Health Facilities Management, the Montreal Gazette, New York Public Radio, Architectural Record, Chain Store Age, Bloomberg News, GlobeSt.com, Progressive Grocer, Ottawa Citizen, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Diego Union-Tribune, National Real Estate Investor, Real Estate Weekly, Rock Products and many other media.

Patrick earned an MBA from Northeastern University and has completed additional programs at Harvard, MIT and Harvard Business School. His experience includes work on more than 100 political campaigns, management of a US Congressional office and a government relations consulting firm. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers.

He has addressed the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Conference on Open-Air Centers, Eckert Seamans' Panel on International Business, The Canadian Gaming Association, the AFL-CIO and ICSC Centerbuild, among others, and served on the Urban Land Institute Advisory Panel for Springfield, Massachusetts.

Patrick, his wife and two daughters reside in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Peter J. Bellomo
Vice president of business development

Peter Bellomo has been with Saint Consulting since 2003. He is responsible for new client sales and market development activities. Prior to joining Saint, Peter spent five years at Accenture, during which he advised sales teams and developed strategic alliances that significantly increased yearly consulting revenues. Before Accenture, Peter was director of sales and distribution for BellSouth Mobility for 13 years.