Patricia C. Denechaud

Patricia C. Denechaud is owner and president of Crescent City Consultants, a full-service destination-management company providing a wide variety of professional services required to organize, coordinate and execute special events, meetings, and convention and incentive travel. In 1979, she co-founded CONTACT, a national consortium of prestigious destination-management firms with representation in the major U.S. convention cities.

A native of New Orleans, she serves as honorary consul for Canada in Louisiana. In addition, she is a director of the World Trade Center, which she also has served as the organization’s first female president, and she is a former president of the Louisiana chapter of the International Women’s Forum.

She is the founder of the New Orleans affiliate of the Komen for the Cure Foundation, the co-chairman of the annual Komen fundraiser, the Summer Cure Auction and Dinner, and past honorary chair of the Race for the Cure.

She is past chairman and an advisory board member of the LSU Health Science Center Foundation Board.

She serves as a Board Member of the New Orleans Vieux Carré Commission.

She is a board member of the Greater New Orleans Chamber of Commerce and vice-chair of the NOCC Foundation.