The current President of the Miami Heat, Pat is widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams and an assistant coach to another. Pat Riley is an eight-time National Basketball Association World Champion, as well as the only Head Coach in NBA history to capture Coach of the Year honors with three different teams: the Los Angeles Lakers, the New York Knicks, and the Miami Heat.

Riley most recently won the 2012 and 2013 NBA championships with the Miami Heat as their team president. He is the first and only North American sports figure to win a championship as a player, coach (both assistant and head), and executive. He received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBA Coaches Association on June 20, 2012. Coach Riley reached the 1000 victory plateau faster than any other Coach or Manager in the four major North American professional sports leagues. He currently stands as the all-time leader in both regular season and postseason victories for both the Lakers and the Heat.

While being professional basketball's third winningest coach, Pat also holds the title of one of "America's Greatest Motivational Speakers" and was rated by Success Magazine as "The best in his field." He is a consummate competitor who knows the exhilaration that comes with winning. His philosophy is based upon winning, leadership, mastery, change, and personal growth as well as understanding and controlling the shifting dynamics of a team - any team, whether it is a small company, a giant corporation, a city, or a group of athletes.

Pat and his wife, Chris, have two children, James Patrick, and Elisabeth Marie. Along with his wife, Riley has been involved with numerous charity and community service projects throughout his career. They founded The Miami HEAT Family Outreach in 1997 which has raised over $13 million for the South Florida community and whose primary beneficiaries include Jackson Memorial Foundation's Guardian Angels which supports the Holtz Center for seriously ill children, SafeSpace which is a domestic violence shelter for women and their children, and the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug-free Community. They are also involved in the Pediatric AIDS Foundation's Kids for Kids organization which they started in 1992 in New York, and the YMCA in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami. For over 30 years the Rileys have been actively involved with Boys and Girls Clubs of America. As a result of his efforts, Riley has received many prestigious awards, including the Miami Project Sports Legend Award in 1992, Boys and Girls Clubs Miami Person of the Year Award in 1998, and was honored by the YMCA Miami in 1998.

His books Showtime and The Winner Within, have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list.