Patricia Montague, FASAE, CAE

Patricia (Patti) Montague currently serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the School Nutrition Association (SNA) and School Nutrition Foundation (SNF).  SNA is a 501(c) (4) professional association with more than 50,000 members, who are responsible for providing healthy and nutritious meals to students in primary and secondary schools across the country every school day.  SNF, a 501(c) (3) is the philanthropic sister organization of SNA that is dedicated to securing financial resources for education, professional development, scholarships and research in school nutrition.

Patti has more than thirty years of association management, marketing and communications experience working at associations and advertising agencies.  During her 30 years with SNA, she has held several positions over the years over membership, credentialing, marketing, operations before serving as Chief Operations Officer, and in 2012 was named SNA’s CEO.  Patti is a member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), earned her Certified Association Executive (CAE) certificate in 2005, named an ASAE Fellow in 2020 and currently serves as the Chair of the ASAE Foundation Development Chair.  In addition, she is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Prior to joining the Association, Patti was the Director of Marketing Communications at SMART HOUSE, LP.  In addition, she worked for some of the top ad agencies in New York prior to moving to the Washington, DC area doing strategic marketing and research for many national brands. She is a trained focus group moderator and strategic planning facilitator.  She has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the State University of New York, Oneonta and has completed graduate level course work in Business Administration.