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President

President and Chief Executive Officer
AROMATIQUE, Inc.

Patti Upton has combined her love of fashion and art with her talent for business to create an innovative industry known as decorative fragrance. Under her watchful eye since its founding in 1982, Aromatique, Inc. has grown into a multi-million dollar international enterprise. Patti's multi-faceted corporation includes many fragrance lines, complete with accessories and decorative containers.

Patti has been recognized by her colleagues in the business community with numerous awards for her accomplishments. She has been named one of the top Business Women in Arkansas by Arkansas Business, the state's top business weekly. Patti served on the Board of Directors of AT&T Inc. from 1993 until her retirement in 2011,at which time she was honored by AT&T Arkansas with a $250,000 contrbution to the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science.

• Business & Professional Leader Award, Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow
• Top 500 United States Business Women - Working Woman Magazine
• The Nature Conservancy Award for Oustanding Contribution to the Enviroment -
• Distinguished Citizen - KARK-TV and Office of the Governor of the State of Arkansas
• The Women's Museum Advisory Board
• Corporations That Make a Difference - International Women's Forum
• Society of Entrepreneurs, Memphis, Tennessee
• Citizen of the Year - Scottish Rite Masons of Arkansas
• Pioneer Award - Arkansas Jaycees
• Arkansan of the Year - Easter Seal Society
• Director's Choice Award - National Women's Economic Alliance
• Outstanding Arkansas Corporation for Philanthropy
• Arkansas Business Woman Owner of the Year
• Arkansas Business of the Year
• Arkansan of the Year - Arkansas Broadcasters' Association
• National Pi Beta Phi Crest Award for Outstanding Alumnae
• Arkansas Business Leadership in the 90's - Women to Watch
• Arkansas Professional Women of Distinction Award Winner
• Most Influential Women - Arkansas Business 2010

Patti was featured on the television series "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and "Working Woman." Numerous magazines and news media features include: "Entrepreneurial Woman," "Nation's Business," "New Woman," "People," "Town & Country," "Vogue," "Victoria," and "Southern Living" magazines, as well as "The Washington Post," the "London Times," and the "London Sunday Express."

Patti created a fragrance line, "The Natural State," in part to benefit the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of our natural world. Since the launch of this line early in 1993 at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City, over 1.7 million dollars has been donated to The Nature Conservancy.