Patricia A. Caldwell Receives 2009 Alumni Distinguished Service Award
BLACKSBURG, Va., May 15, 2009 -- Patricia A. Caldwell, class of '71, is a recipient of the 2009 Alumni Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her outstanding service to the university and the Alumni Association.
Caldwell, of New York, NY, has more than 30 years experience as a financial analyst and investment banker. She founded Gordian Group LLC with three other partners in 1988. With a nationwide practice spanning across all industry lines, Gordian Group provides financial advisory services in distressed and complicated situations. She was formerly with Citibank, where she founded the Corporate Finance and Analysis Department. During her 13 years at Citibank, Caldwell also spent nine years as a lending officer, including several years as a senior member of the Petroleum Metals and Mining Department. Prior to joining Citibank, she spent two years as a financial analyst with AT&T Bell Labs.
A fourth generation Hokie, Caldwell’s great grandfather, Daniel Franklin Hale, was a member of the first class of Virginia Tech. She has maintained a strong commitment to Virginia Tech, serving as a long-time member of the former College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Roundtable and as past chair of the College of Science Roundtable. She has served on the Virginia Tech Foundation Board, the Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Council, Mathematics Department Advisory Board, and the Quiet Phase Campaign Steering Committee, and is currently a member of the university’s College of Science Campaign Steering Committee. Caldwell endowed a scholarship which is awarded to out-of-state female undergraduate students majoring in Mathematics. In recognition of her exceptional service to the university and the college, she was the recipient of the first ever Distinguished Alumni Award from the college.
Caldwell serves as director and treasurer of the New York Service Program for Older People, director of Friends and Relatives of the Institutionalized Aged, and as a member of the State University of New York at Albany University Council and School of Business Advisory Board.
Caldwell graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1971 and holds an M.B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany.