Patty Klingbiel

Patty Klingbiel is President & Principal at The Connell Group. Previously, they were Vice-President & Account Executive at the Zyman Group, an international consulting firm focused on marketing and growth strategy. Patty was a key leader and business driver during the firm's explosive growth (over 650% over 4 years) - earning it a spot as fastest growing consulting firm in the Inc. 500 list in late 2004. Patty served as an Account Executive on 3 of Zyman’s largest and most continuous clients – within the Food (CPG), IT Outsourcing and Retail/Entertainment industries.

Before their work with the Zyman Group, Patty was Vice President of E-Commerce Marketing at Merck Medco. While there, their team was responsible for marketing, eCommerce strategy, website design and client partnership efforts. Within eCommerce, the focus was on migrating Merck-Medco’s 65 million consumer members to merckmedco.com for ordering prescriptions and related benefit transactions.

Patty Klingbiel has a BBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Cincinnati. Patty also has a BBA in Finance & Accounting from the University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business. Patty Klingbiel is certified from LinkedIn in How Leaders Can Motivate Others by Creating Meaning.

Some individuals on their team include Sean Connell - Founder & Principal, Maurilio Garcia - Insights & Operations Director, and Nancy Goldstein - Head of Strategy, CMO & CCO.