Vice President, Deputy General Counsel
Prior to joining KoBold, Patty was VP, Counsel at Paramount Global supporting Simon & Schuster’s international publishing operations and also spent several years as a legal consultant to various non-profits, most recently the American Museum of Natural History. Patty has broad corporate experience drafting, structuring, and negotiating complex transactions. During her 15 years at Time Warner Inc. (now Warner Bros. Discovery), as Vice President, Associate General Counsel & Assistant Secretary, she oversaw Time Warner’s venture capital investments group and led mergers & acquisitions, strategic partnerships and internal restructurings, including the $85B sale of Time Warner to AT&T and three divisional spin-offs. Patty started her career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore after serving as a law clerk to Judge Karen Nelson Moore on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Patty holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School where she was a Stone Scholar and served on the Columbia Law Review. She earned her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University graduating Phi Beta Kappa.