Patti has been with Slack Barshinger for five years now. She has developed PR programs for numerous clients, including many in the food industry.

Throughout her career, Patti has demonstrated a knack for creating bonds between her clients and the media. Before coming here, Patti worked at Tech Image, generating interest for both publicly traded companies and smaller, startup businesses. She also served as national sales and marketing manager for Dickson, a developer of monitoring devices. There, Patti directed distributor marketing and sales programs for W.W. Grainger, Home Depot’s Maintenance Warehouse, Fisher Scientific, VWR Scientific Products and McMaster-Carr, as well as some 100 other privately and publicly owned distributors in the laboratory, industrial, food and MRO markets.

Early in her career, Patti was tradeshow manager for Tower Show Productions, a producer of consumer tradeshows. Patti received her bachelor’s degree in communications from Elmhurst College.