Learning by Association

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.

Patti has more than thirty-five years of association management, marketing and communications experience working at associations and advertising agencies. During her 31 years with SNA, she has a number of different positions, including serving as Chief Operations Officer for eight years, and in 2012 she was named SNA’s CEO. Patti is a member of the American Society of Association Executives where she has served on a number of national committees and earned her Certified Association Executive (CAE) certificate in 2005 and named an ASAE Fellow in 2020.