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Patricia M. Bedient
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Weyerhaeuser Company
Join the NWAFP as we learn insights from Patricia Bedient of Weyerhaeuser on challenges she faces leading one of the Northwest's premier companies.
Patricia M. Bedient was appointed Executive Vice President and CFO in April 2007.
Patty joined Weyerhaeuser in 2003 as Vice President, strategic planning; from 2006 until 2007, she served as Senior Vice President, finance and strategic planning.
Prior to joining the company, Bedient was with Arthur Andersen LLP for 27 years, where she served a number of clients in the forest products, manufacturing, distribution and educational service industries. She began her career with Arthur Andersen in Portland, Oregon, becoming a partner in 1987. In 1993 she transferred to the Boise, Idaho, office. From 1999–2002 she served as the managing partner for the Seattle office and as the partner in charge of the firm’s forest products practice.
Patty attended Oregon State University where she received a bachelor of science degree in business administration, with a concentration in accounting and finance.
Bedient is a certified public accountant and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Washington Society of CPAs.
She currently serves on the board of directors of Alaska Air Group, Treasurer and Board member of Overlake Hospital Medical Center the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, the advisory board for the University of Washington School of Business, and the San Francisco regional advisory board for FM Global.
Patty has served on the boards of the Oregon State University Foundation board of trustees, the World Forestry Center, the Forest History Society, and the Forest Research Lab advisory committee, Oregon State University. She has also served as past president, City Club of Portland; past chair, board of regents, St. Mary’s Academy of Portland; past vice chair, Boise Chamber of Commerce; and past treasurer for both United Way of Ada County, Idaho, and Alliance for Education in Seattle.
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