Guthrie Paterson

Experience

SVP, Legal, Compliance & People 2024 - Present (over 2 years)

SVP, Legal, Compliance and People for an AI-powered mortgage lender redesigning homebuying economics across the U.S.
• Led a $20M Series B VC financing, expanding geographic... more

SVP, Legal & Finance 2020 - 2024 (over 3 years)

SVP, Legal & Finance for an AI-powered mortgage lender redesigning homebuying economics across the U.S.
• Led $110M Seed/Series A VC financings, moving from the whiteboard... more

Trace3

Chief Development & Legal Officer

2017 - 2020 (over 2 years)


Chief Development & Legal Officer for a national enterprise technology solutions provider delivering cloud, security and data intelligence solutions to Fortune 1000 clients.... more  Responsible for Corporate Development, Business Development, Legal, M&A Integration, Sales Operations and Facilities.
•  Lead post-M&A integration of a $300M+ Revenue / 300 employee add-on acquisition, unifying brands, operations and sales forces to realize $25M+ in cost savings and revenue synergies

COO, CFO and General Counsel

2015 - 2017 (over 2 years)


COO, CFO and General Counsel for a national enterprise technology solutions provider delivering cloud, security and data intelligence solutions to Fortune 1000 clients.  Responsible... more for Finance, Procurement, Operations, Sales Operations, Legal, IT & Applications and Facilities.
•  Executed a high-growth business plan to create material enterprise value
•  Four-year CAGR of 28.1% (Revenue), 31.8% (Gross Profit) and 91.2% (EBITDA)
•  Increased EBITDA margins over same four-year period by 118%

EVP, Operations & General Counsel

2014 - 2015 (about 1 year)


EVP, Operations & General Counsel for a national enterprise technology solutions provider delivering cloud, security and data intelligence solutions to Fortune 1000 clients.... more  Responsible for Operations, Sales Operations, Procurement and Legal
• Led a financial turnaround 
• Sourced a new $115M working capital financing facility
• Revised cash management =to generate $1.5M+/year EBITDA
• Eliminated $10M+ of non-critical business lines and operating expenses

Vice President, General Counsel

2010 - 2014 (almost 4 years)


Vice President, General Counsel for a national enterprise technology solutions provider delivering cloud, security and data intelligence solutions to Fortune 1000 clients.... more  Responsible for Legal and Sales Operations
•. Built a Legal team, workflows and playbooks to review $1.2B+/year in commercial transactions
•. Successfully resolved $30M+ ofl litigation claims with no adverse financial impact
•. Partner with Human Resources on all personnel, compensation and separation efforts

popinnow

Vice President, Business Development 2013 - 2015 (over 2 years)

Vice President, Business Development for a developer of organizational health, collaboration and crowdsourcing SaaS solutions for enterprise clients. Responsible for Finance,... more

InstantScale Capital

Founder, Managing Director 2010 - 2017 (over 6 years)

Managing Director for a venture capital platform investing in emerging providers of enterprise hardware and software technology solutions. Responsible for Investments, Investor... more

Comtex News Network

Vice President, General Counsel 2009 - 2010 (11 months)

Vice President, General Counsel for a publicly traded digital media company providing proprietary news and media content and artificial intelligence trading solutions. Responsible... more

LeGarde Capital Management

Vice President, General Counsel 2009 - 2010 (11 months)

Vice President, General Counsel for a long-short alternative asset manager using automated quantitative algorithms and artificial intelligence programs. Responsible for Legal,... more

Jones Day

Senior M&A Attorney 1999 - 2009 (about 10 years)

Senior M&A Attorney for the fifth largest global law firm providing a full range of legal services to a worldwide corporate and governmental client base-depth experience... more

Founder

InstantScale Capital

Employee

Trace3, Jones Day, LeGarde Capital Management, Comtex News Network, popinnow, Tomo

Education

About

Skills

Acquisitions Aerospace Alternative Investments Compensation and Benefits Business Plan compensation Distribution Equity Financial Financial Services Human Resources Infrastructure Insurance Licensing litigation Management Manufacturing Mergers & Acquisitions Outsourcing P&L Private Equity Real Estate Risk Management Sec SEC Filings Securities Services Swedish Venture Capital

Locations

California Texas Idaho Wyoming Utah Washington

Q&A

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Hiking most of the Western United States . . .

Guthrie Paterson

Board-experienced Chief Legal Officer with 25 years of experience scaling legal, compliance, people, and business operations for technology companies.