Head of Climate & Impact Investing
Jon Patty
White Oak Global Advisors · San Francisco
Mr. Patty is Head of Climate & Impact Investing at White Oak Global Advisors. He has spent the last 20 years in private equity and structured debt investing, with the last 10 years focused exclusively on impact investing.
Professional background
As Partner of the White Oak Impact Fund, Mr. Patty will focus on financings that generate attractive risk-adjusted returns and strong social and environmental benefit. He will also work with senior leadership on strategy, capital raising and new opportunities for the firm.
Before White Oak, he was Managing Director and Head of Private Equity at New Island Capital, a leading global private impact investment firm. There, he led private equity, structured debt and project finance investments.
Earlier, Mr. Patty was a senior investment professional at MC Partners, a $1.5 billion top-quartile private equity investment firm, and JPMorgan Partners, then a $4 billion private equity investment group.
Education and qualifications
Mr. Patty earned a B.Mus. in Classical Guitar Performance and a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Northwestern University, graduating magna cum laude. He also earned an MBA with honors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.