Pat has more than 20 years of experience in management and marketing consulting, financial services and executive search. Since entering the search profession in 1984, Pat has served major consumer and marketing-driven corporations in the entertainment, media, e-business, packaged goods, retail, publishing, financial services and private equity industries. She has successfully completed top management assignments for such blue chip organizations as American Express, Booz Allen & Hamilton, CVS/Caremark, Fidelity Investments, J.P. Morgan Chase, IBM, NBC Universal, News Corporation, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sony and Viacom, to name a few. Pat has recruited executives across senior management with an emphasis on the CEO, CFO and CMO functions. In addition, as a licensed psychologist, Pat has conducted management evaluations of senior executives on behalf of acquiring organizations or newly hired CEOs.

Prior to forming Cook & Company, Pat was a Senior Partner and Director of Heidrick & Struggles and an active member of the firm's Consumer, E-Business and Financial Services Global Practices. Earlier, Pat was a Partner and Global Executive Committee Member of Ward Howell International and, subsequently, of A.T. Kearney. She began her career in executive search consulting with Egon Zehnder International, the major Swiss-based firm. Before entering the search profession, she was a Senior Vice President of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, the marketing consulting organization. From 1979-1984, Pat was a Senior Vice President of Chemical Bank and held line management positions in the bank's domestic and international divisions serving consumers, corporations and financial institutions around the globe.

Previously, she was a Senior Vice President of Louis Harris and Associates, the pollsters, and, earlier in her career, an Associate with the management consulting firm of Booz Allen & Hamilton. While completing her doctoral studies, Pat was a Senior Project Director with Abt Associates, managing large-scale public policy studies on war on poverty programs for the Federal government.

A graduate of Wheelock College with a B.S. Degree in Education, Pat received her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from Boston University, where she was an NDEA Teaching Fellow. Among her outside activities, Pat is active in the International Women's Forum, the Economic Club of New York and serves on the Board of Trustees of Wheelock College and the Bronxville School Foundation.