In a career spanning 36 years, Hatti has counseled clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to government, non-profit and educational institutions. They have included household names like American Express, Clorox, Sara Lee, Microsoft and GE Capital, as well as local and regional companies ranging from wineries to consulting firms, Internet companies, hospitals, retailers, medical equipment manufacturers, utilities, banks and real estate companies.

She began her career working in the Washington State governor’s office, followed by a stint representing the Republican Caucus of the Washington State House of Representatives. Hatti has since handled statewide lobbying campaigns and a wide array of community relations campaigns, in addition to a multitude of marketing and corporate public relations efforts.

Hatti managed her own PR firm for 14 years, beginning in 1982. During that period, she engineered many successful product launches and company launches, including launching the world’s first “hospital built for kids,” Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. The hospital opening received international media coverage, including stories in U.S. News and World Report, Time, and the Wall Street Journal.

In 1996, she joined Publicis Dialog, a unit of French-based advertising giant Publicis, as executive vice president. There, she launched and managed the firm’s San Francisco public relations division, growing its annual fee revenue to over $2.5 million, and becoming a key member of the agency’s new business team, promoting the firm’s unique integrated marketing approach. Her clients ranged from hospitals, insurers and medical technology firms to educational institutions, dot-coms, and Fortune 500 consumer package goods companies. She left Publicis in 2000 to join Fleishman-Hillard, where she was vice president and head of the San Francisco health care practice.

In 2001, Hatti returned to solo practice. She works with clients throughout the US, often teaming up with other independent professionals. She has provided public relations counsel to a wide array of local and national clients, among them Microsoft MSN TV; The Segal Company, a leading employee benefits, human resources and compensation consulting firm; PSD, Inc., a Canton-Ohio-based power systems engineering and construction company; The Mechanics Bank, the largest community bank in California; El Camino Hospital, a Mountain View non-profit hospital; and The Marconi Society, a nonprofit foundation the recognizes science and engineering achievements in the field of communication and the Internet.

A long-time member of PRSA, Hatti is a past president of the San Francisco chapter and has been a board member for over 20 years. She served as chairman of the North Pacific District of PRSA in 2003, and as chair of PRSA’s national Professional Development Committee. She was elected to the PRSA College of Fellows in 2004 and in 2006, she was honored with the PRSA Rex Harlow Award for lifetime achievement in the public relations profession.

Hatti sits on the advisory boards of the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley, and UC Berkeley’s Center for Weight and Health, an organization devoted to disseminating information and promoting scientific research, with special emphasis on the prevention of childhood obesity.