ABOUT US:
Bässler Group is an independent business management consultancy located in Bellevue, Washington.
We specialize in providing highly personalized accounting and back-office support services to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and fast-growing startups.
Our work often involves connecting with our business clients and their CPAs, attorneys, and wealth managers on complex financial matters, providing accounting and financial analysis, strategic consulting, and business management reporting.
Startups and foreign business entities trust us to set up their business structures and help ensure accounting and compliance based on United States requirements.
High-net-worth individuals and family offices look to us for outsourced family financial needs including: accounting, financial reporting, bill pay, cash flow analysis, and estate, tax and investment planning and coordination.
Whatever the scope of our work, we approach every task with our signature hyper-focused attention to detail and a can-do attitude — always delivered with a smile.
OUR PURPOSE:
Bässler Group exists to simplify our clients’ lives, freeing them to do their best work.
OUR VALUES:
Always be ready.
Disciplined completion of our daily tasks hones our achievement mindset and establishes a state of preparedness that allows us to contribute to successful outcomes swiftly.
Organization is beautiful.
Be a conductor of chaos. Move masterfully with graceful proficiency and deliberate confidence. Produce work that crosses the threshold of ordinary—embracing our aesthetic senses.
Believe it’s possible.
Default to optimism. Always believing there is a solution. Be a champion for the undeveloped potential that resides inside every situation.
Deep understanding.
Strategic solutions arise from knowledge gained through a comprehensive awareness of the problem. Achieving this requires meeting the unknown with compassion and a curious mind.
Patricia Bässler
Prior to founding Bässler Group, Patricia’s career began in public accounting with an emphasis on tax and compliance. She later became a controller focusing on family office, private investments, and tax strategy. Her optimism, understanding of both client and business needs, as well as her passion for business and accounting propelled Patricia to create Bässler Group.
Patricia’s devotion ensures that every client has an individualized experience tailored to their specific needs. She brings a principled approach and can-do spirit to tackle what can seem like insurmountable chaos created by the acquisition and financial maintenance of multiple entities. She has designed business management systems and built a rock-star team at Bässler Group to manage the financial operations for high-net-worth individuals, family offices, start-ups, and small businesses, specializing in day-to-day accounting functions, taxes, treasury, and multi-tier partnerships.
Patricia lives in Kirkland Washington with her husband, two teenage sons, and loving dogs. When away from the office, she enjoys spending time with her friends and family and is always supporting her family’s many endeavors.
Meet Your Dream Team
Paige Deguchi
Senior Accountant
Paige’s passion for learning has allowed her to grow from a staff accountant at Bässler into her current role. A background in athletics helped Paige develop the discipline and standard of excellence that shines in all her work. Her high-quality results are the product of her dependability and grit, allowing her to manage competing deadlines. Adaptability informs her approach to complex financial structures and combines with her ability to absorb new information to produce elevated reports and analyses. Her energetic and determined personality inspires the team and keeps projects on schedule.
Megan Gettis
Office Manager/HR Coordinator
With more than eight years of experience in customer service and a background in management, Megan keeps the office running like a well-oiled machine. Whether she is overseeing billing, helping create schedules, making sense of administrative tasks, or ensuring we don’t run out of coffee, Megan is vital to this office! She is persistently soaking up as much knowledge as possible to expand her role. Her cheerful personality, dedicated work ethic, and thorough mindset ensure the work is done while the team stays engaged and happy to be here!
Lynn Burns
Senior Accountant
With more than ten years of experience in wealth management and accounting, Lynn leverages her research tenacity and passion for data analytics to curate reports for client-specific needs. She exhibits an adaptable approach to complex financial structures to make the client’s financial world smooth sailing. Due to her emphasis on compliance from her fiduciary and audit background, Lynn ensures thorough and efficient processing of client services. With her diverse financial knowledge and passion for identifying trends and creating structure, Lynn never ceases to find ways to improve the overall client experience.
Jonathan Decker
Office Administrator
Jonathan comes from a background in property management, which has given him the skillset to prioritize multiple projects while staying organized and ensuring he meets all deadlines. He continuously demonstrates the ability to quickly grasp new concepts, allowing him to gracefully take on more responsibilities. His inclusive personality allows each and every individual that steps into our office to feel welcome. From administrative duties to jumping in on client-related projects, he always gets the job done while assuring the team is taken care of!
Zak Barclay
Staff Accountant
Zak comes from a background of 2+ years of audit experience. Zak’s passion for the accounting world drives him to produce high quality deliverables for all our clients. He has a curious mindset leading him to want to understand the importance of the why and how of every client request or project he handles. His previous auditing experience has provided his attentiveness to details, ease at team collaboration, and strong analytical skillset. He understands the importance of deadlines and is extremely well-organized, allowing him to meet the needs of our clients. Zak is highly adaptable as he began his career in a fully remote environment, allowing him to be able to work independently and collaboratively as necessary. His work ethic is undeniable, he is consistently willing to put in the extra effort to complete tasks effectively and efficiently. Zak brings a smile to the office that always shines through with his coworkers and clients.
Caitlin Schumacher
Staff Accountant
Caitlin joined the Bässler team after earning her Bachelor of Finance and is currently furthering her education while working toward her master’s degree. Throughout Caitlin’s time as a student, she acquired immaculate listening and learning skills that are now seamlessly applied to her daily work and attention to detail here at Bässler. Her comprehensive background ensures effective client communication, in-depth financial reporting, and high-quality work. No task is too tedious for Caitlin as she collaborates with the rest of the Bässler team to fulfill client needs with efficiency and accuracy.
