PSC Communications founder Patti Schickram Costantino is an accomplished marketing communications professional with proven brand-building expertise.
Throughout her career, she has promoted a diverse portfolio of iconic consumer brands that includes Porsche, Kellogg's, Martinelli’s, Bacardi, Hennessy, Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Guinness, in both agency and corporate roles.
After years of coaching C-Suite executives, entrepreneurs, celebrities, brand ambassadors and content creators, Patti recently opened PSC PRESENTATION POWER. This proprietary program offers customized, one-on-one and small group coaching to untap the professional speaker-and storyteller-in us all.
Prior to starting PSC Communications, Patti served as US public relations lead at Bacardi USA, where she managed the national launch of its new superpremium expressions, the Facundo Rum Collection and led best-in-class programming for both its existing brands and new to world innovations.
She also served as Senior PR and Events Director at Diageo North America for close to a decade, leading communications for the Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker and Guinness brands. Of her myriad accomplishments at Diageo, Ms. Costantino developed and led the award-winning “Proposition 3-17” program, an integrated marketing effort to make St. Patrick’s Day a national holiday. The program, which still continues to this day, was recognized by every major industry award program that year, including the Cannes PR Lions Award, PRSA Silver Anvil & SABRE Awards.
Patti runs her business (and her life) on both coasts. A self-described “wine geek,” she recently completed her Wine & Spirit Expert certification from the renowned Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) and was recently named one of the “Top Industry Influencers” by Chilled magazine. She is a frequent participant in major awards competitions and guest speaker at professional conferences, panels and education centers, including the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City.