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Women & Money | Patricia Voorhees
October 22, 2020 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
About This Event
Create Impact? Follow the Money
Date: 10/22/20
Time: 4PM EDT
Length: 60 Minutes
Event Type: Virtual
Description
In this episode we speak with Patricia Voorhees, Director of Strategic Consulting and M&A Advisory in the Fintech Practice at The Alta Group. Patricia shares with us her own reinvention story, and how her later-in-life educational pursuits — Masters depress in Ethics & Society and Peace & Justice — have well-served her continued success in the financials services industry. We discuss the interlocking nature of capital and impact and how we should think about doing good by following the money. The role of fintech in addressing our most pressing issues, such as public health, inclusion and sustainability is explored. Patricia shares her thoughts on risk mitigation and how the pandemic has shaped her work.
Featured Guest Speaker
Patricia M. Voorhees
About Patricia
Patricia M. Voorhees, Director of Strategic Consulting and M&A Advisory in the Fintech Practice at The Alta Group, has over 25 years of experience in commercial finance. Her expertise focuses on forming captive financing companies, establishing vendor finance programs, and facilitating mergers and acquisitions within the commercial finance industry. Clients also benefit from her experience in business development, strategic pricing, business ethics, sales and marketing.
After launching her career at IBM, Voorhees was an executive at GE Capital from 1996 to 2011, where she served in several key roles. In her initial position as vice president for business development, Patricia was responsible for establishing more than a dozen new vendor and captive finance programs. She then became managing director of business development for M&As, managing more than 14 acquisition originations. Later she was the company’s general manager of Office Imaging Finance, leading a small-ticket leasing business with $5.5 billion in assets and 450 employees. She also was GE Capital’s strategic pricing leader during the U.S. financial crisis.
Most recently, Patricia was founding principal and president of Verus Services Group, a consultancy serving the commercial finance and commercial real estate markets. Patricia holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Western Connecticut State University, and two masters of arts degrees from Fordham University, in education for peace and social justice, and ethics and society. Patricia currently serves as Director of Fordham University Business School’s Consortium for Trustworthy Organizations.
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