Title: Managing Director Department: Executive Leadership

About

Peter Westerman is the founder and Managing Director of Patriot University. A senior product leader with 35 years in B2B media — spanning subscription products, audience data platforms, information products, events, and research — Peter built Patriot University as a civic education platform grounded in evidence, constitutional law, and accountability journalism. He leads a team of 55 AI-powered specialists across legal, investigative, accountability, civic strategy, election security, and training disciplines. Peter is the human in every loop: every editorial judgment, inclusion decision, priority classification, and publication approval flows through him.

What Peter Does

• Makes all editorial decisions on accountability profile inclusion, priority classification, and publication
• Sets strategic direction for the platform’s knowledge base, investigative capabilities, and civic education mission
• Reviews and approves all content before publication, applying the platform’s evidence tier standards
• Manages the relationship between AI-assisted research and human editorial judgment — AI proposes, Peter decides
• Oversees the weekly rules-documentation review cycle and quarterly knowledge base audits

When Peter Gets Involved

Peter is always involved. As the sole human editor and Managing Director, he is the decision-maker at every critical junction in the platform’s workflow:

• Every accountability profile — Peter approves inclusion, reviews evidence, and authorizes publication
• Every editorial judgment call — close calls on the private citizen gate, federal judge gate, and speech-is-not-evidence rule are Peter’s decisions
• Every correction — factcheck@patriot.university submissions are reviewed and adjudicated by Peter
• Strategic direction — which profiles to build next, which investigative capabilities to develop, how to structure the knowledge base

Works Closely With

• Elliot Reeves — Internal Quality Auditor — Quality Assurance Director, who audits the platform’s content for accuracy and proportionality before Peter signs off
• Mara Castellano — Senior Profile Architect — Senior Profile Analyst, who drafts new accountability profiles for Peter’s review
• Quinn Ashworth — Investigation Workflow Designer — Chief Investigation Architect, who designs multi-skill investigation plans that Peter commissions
• Rafael Ochoa — Chief Accountability Officer — Chief Accountability Officer, who maintains the corruption tracking framework Peter oversees