Patricia Whittington

Patricia ("Patty") Whittington is a tax and finance executive based in the Portland / Lake Oswego, Oregon area. According to her professional profiles, she serves (or served) as Senior Vice President, Tax & Finance, with her career centered on corporate tax, accounting, and finance leadership rather than venture or angel investing. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Oregon State University.

Her career spans several Oregon and national employers. Public professional records list prior roles at Obsidian Finance Group (the firm tied to the contact details in this profile), Aequitas Capital Management, Pope & Talbot (the Portland-based forest-products company), U.S. Bank, and Deloitte. This trajectory — from a Big Four accounting firm through corporate and financial-services tax/finance departments — is consistent with a specialist in tax and corporate finance rather than a deal-sourcing investor.

Obsidian Finance Group, LLC, the firm associated with her contact information, is a Lake Oswego/Portland-based hybrid advisory and investment firm founded in April 2003 by David W. Brown and Kevin D. Padrick. It specializes in "unique and difficult business situations," including distressed enterprises and distressed assets, combining expertise across law, accounting, finance, insolvency, tax, and real estate. Within that firm, a tax & finance executive would support transaction structuring, restructuring, and portfolio-company tax matters — again distinct from the "angel investor" characterization in the source stub.

Note that Aequitas Capital Management, another firm on her résumé, was an Oregon investment group that the SEC charged with fraud in March 2016 for allegedly hiding its deteriorating financial condition while raising more than $350 million from investors. Patricia Whittington was not among the executives named or charged in that action.

• No personal angel/seed investment thesis could be verified. The available record describes a tax and finance operating executive, not a check-writing investor, so any stated "what makes her say yes" criteria would be speculation.
• At the firm level, Obsidian Finance Group focuses on special situations: distressed businesses and distressed assets, restructuring/insolvency, and related real-estate and tax-driven opportunities — a fundamentally different mandate from early-stage venture or angel seed investing.
• Firm approach (per its own description): advising businesses and investors to "identify investment opportunities, structure and close transactions, and develop strategies to achieve optimal returns," drawing on combined law, accounting, finance, insolvency, tax, and real-estate expertise.