View Sounding Board: Five Minutes With Patrick Harris, President And Co-founder Of Velocity Jets in PDF format. As a child, Patrick Harris grew up near an airport in New Jersey and began identifying the various aircraft flying overhead as a game. After college, he began a career in finance. From his office window in Miami he watched aircraft landing at the airport. Eventually, he left the world of finance to follow his passion into the aviation industry. In 2007, he co-founded Velocity ...