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 news aggregator and civil rights resource grounded in evidence, constitutional law, and accountability journalism. The platform aggregates credible reporting and official records, publishes opinion and analysis, and provides resources for civil rights, voting rights, and civic engagement. It maintains a public knowledge graph for independent journalists and future truth-and-reconciliation efforts — holding officials accountable for their documented actions, not their protected speech. He leads a team of 69 AI-powered specialists across legal, investigative, accountability, civic strategy, election security, training, and product & engineering 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