Patti

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Throughout her career, Patti has developed strategies and delivered solutions that spark brand awareness and fuel business growth.
She currently serves as the Director of Marketing at The Fortegra Group, a multibillion-dollar specialty insurance carrier. In this role, she spearheads marketing, advertising, public relations, communications, and sales enablement efforts for the company's risk management products and warranty solutions around the world.
Patti has previously worked in the entertainment, finance, hospitality, and food & beverage sectors, and represented clients in the academic, biotechnology, and industrial manufacturing spaces.
While in the entertainment industry, Patti served as the 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. Picture Publicity, she managed press screenings and premieres for dozens of films, most notably: Inception, The Hobbit, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Dark Knight Rises, The Great Gatsby and Man of Steel. Patti has worked alongside the Grammy Awards, the Academy Awards, the Vatican Museums, and the U.S. Navy Office of Community Outreach, among others.
She is a member of the American Marketing Association and the Insurance Marketing & Communications Association.
In 2024, she was selected by Ragan/PR Daily as one of America’s Top Women in Marketing.
A 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 way to fundraise and advocate for the veteran organizations that she supports.
Her official platform is Homes for Our Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds and donates specially-adapted homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 veterans. She has volunteered, championed and fundraised for the nonprofit throughout her reigns and in her personal life, and is a designated Official Proud Supporter of the organization since 2018.
Patti holds multiple titles, most notably the Mrs. New York America state title and the Mrs. USA Universe national title. She placed Top 15 at the Mrs. Universe pageant in Sofia, Bulgaria, competing against 80+ countries. Through pageantry, Patti has had the opportunity to model for a variety of brands and publications including Elle and Harper's Bazaar.