Patti is a multidimensional leader with more than 15 years of progressive experience solving complex business challenges, leading high-performing teams, and transforming strategic visions into measurable results.

Her career spans a diverse range of industries, including finance, insurance, hospitality, and entertainment, as well as agency-side experience supporting clients across the biotechnology, healthcare, academic, and industrial sectors.

During her time in the entertainment industry, Patti served as assistant publicist to Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Dallas Roberts (The Walking Dead), Cory Michael Smith (Gotham), Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel), and Matt McGorry (How to Get Away with Murder). At Warner Bros. Pictures Publicity, she helped manage press screenings and premieres for numerous major film releases, including Inception, The Hobbit, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Dark Knight Rises, The Great Gatsby, and Man of Steel.

Throughout her career, Patti has worked alongside and consulted for globally recognized organizations and institutions, including the Grammy Awards, the Academy Awards, the Vatican Museums, and the U.S. Navy Office of Community Outreach.

In 2024, she was recognized as one of Ragan’s “Top Women in Marketing.” She currently serves as Director of Business Development & Agency Relations at The Fortegra Group, a global, multibillion-dollar specialty insurance carrier.

A proud veteran of the U.S. Army, Patti served as a Human Intelligence Collector at the 42nd Infantry Division in New York. She is trained and certified in interrogations, source operations and strategic debriefings.

She attended Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill (Oklahoma) and graduated from the United States Army Intelligence Center of Excellence in Fort Huachuca (Arizona) for her Advanced Individual Training.

Notable additional training includes: Warfighter (WFX), a decisive action environment that mimics emerging threats in an austere theater of operation; and The Box at the Army Joint Readiness Training Center, a combat training center specializing in complex warfare.

After reaching the end of her contract, Patti was honorably discharged in 2018.

Patti originally entered the world of pageantry as a means to amplify her advocacy and fundraising efforts for veteran-focused organizations close to her heart.

Her official platform was Homes For Our Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds and donates specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 veterans. Throughout her reigns — and in her personal life — Patti has volunteered, championed, and fundraised on behalf of the organization, and is recognized as an Official Proud Supporter.

Patti has held multiple pageant titles, most notably Mrs. New York America and Mrs. USA Universe. She went on to place in the Top 15 at the Mrs. Universe pageant in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she competed alongside delegates representing more than 80 countries.

Through pageantry, Patti has also had the opportunity to model for a variety of brands, campaigns, and publications.