about us

Kathy Robison | CEO

Kathy Robison has pioneered a successful career during her twenty years in the international business community. She has worked on several high profile projects that are the first of their kind in the world, start-ups in Asia and Europe, integration of firms with opposing cultures, and numerous other business organization and restructuring projects throughout her career.

Most recently Kathy was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of ORIX Finance (~$3 billion in assets), a division of ORIX Corporation, the largest non-bank public finance company in Japan.  As a member of the management committee, she was responsible for strategic direction, portfolio and company acquisitions to expand the business, and external financing matters.

Prior to ORIX, Kathy spent eleven years working in 6 different countries for Goldman Sachs Companies.  Most recently she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group (~ $2 billion in assets) where she worked directly with the Partners in FICC to develop a platform dedicated to providing financing solutions to middle market companies based in the US and Canada.  This role also included setup, issuance, and collateral management of a $3 billion CLO funding structure as well as daily operational responsibility of the platform.

Kathy also held the position of Director at Archon Group Deutschland, an expatriate responsible for managing the integration of Delmora Bank into the Goldman Sachs/Archon Group Germany platform.  The purchase from the Association of German Banks included a 2.3 billion euro portfolio of non-performing loans as well as a workout platform and banking license making it the first of its kind in Germany.  Additionally Kathy worked on the acquisition of GSW, a 52,000 unit residential company, from The Land of Berlin for ~400 million euros.

Additionally, Kathy held the position of Director of Executive Operations for Archon Group LP, the global real estate asset management platform for Goldman Sachs and the Whitehall Funds.  This was a chief-of-staff type position that reported directly to the global CEO responsible for working with the executive team on global strategy creation and execution.  Archon Group is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with offices in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and China.

Kathy’s tenure with Archon Group/Goldman Sachs included multiple years working in Asia at the outset of Whitehall’s investments in the region.  Kathy was involved in the initial platform setup as well as underwriting and bidding on portfolios that included both equity and debt assets.  Prior to her work in Asia, Kathy was also heavily involved in the largest and first of its kind real estate privatization transaction in the UK.  The Goldman Sachs led consortium was awarded the successful bid for the DSS (Department of Social Services) contract which outsourced the ownership and full-service management of the 16 million square foot, 800 building portfolio, which eventually became known as Trillium.
Kathy’s work in numerous professional and cultural settings has provided a tremendous depth of experience and unique perspective on corporations and how they work. She has spent many years personally cataloguing through experience and observation what promotes and what deters business and personal success, as well as developing new strategies to take companies and their leaders to a higher level.

Kathy’s ability to toggle between the big picture and the details of a critical process, break down conflicts into opportunities for alignment, and assess and improve the effectiveness of management practices gives her the versatile skill set necessary to tackle any business challenge.

Kathy received a BS from Texas A&M University in Agricultural Economics and a Master of Real Estate from the University of Denver.

Jennifer Wheatley | Partner

Jennifer has amassed a 17-year career working around the world on multicultural initiatives. She has focused on adventure travel/ecotourism, conservation, nonprofit development, and small business management and spent the last four years as Executive Director of the Rogue Community College Foundation.

Jennifer’s strengths are her ability to identify the opportunity within every challenge as well as a general mastery of collaboration and its application to promote success. Her inclination toward action balanced with an affinity for unconventional thinking makes her a phenomenal asset in business development.

Jennifer has a BA in Sociology and Environmental Studies from Whitman College and a Master of Science in Domestic and International Tourism from the University of Denver.