By 8 a.m. most weekdays, Patrick Comer is connected by video call to London, Stockholm, Barcelona and other faraway cities as he meets remotely with executives of the publicly traded market research firm he's run since September 2024.

Working from his suburban St. Charles Parish home, and from his stylish office in the Lower Garden District, he's the unlikely CEO of Cint, the Stockholm, Sweden-based enterprise that bought his New Orleans-based tech startup Lucid nearly four years ago for $1.1 billion and created a huge payday for him and his investors.

Comer, an Alabama native who moved to the New Orleans area in 2008, is the first to say that he didn't have being CEO of a Swedish tech company on his 2025 bingo card. But then he didn't know the acquisition of Lucid would precede a chal

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