Pat Pitsch

Vice President, Growth Strategy & Business Development

Pat works across Navitus’ Sales, Marketing and Client Services departments. She helps Navitus create strategy, positioning, and tactics to thoroughly understand and offer clients meaningful solutions to their business problems. She also maximizes Navitus’ relationships with the stakeholders influencing plan sponsors, such as coalitions, consultants, and business groups.

Pat joined Navitus in 2021 as Senior Director of Business Development. She brought the "voice of the customer" to the Sales team, leading the consultant relations strategy, establishing a process for consultant outreach, relationship building and receiving feedback. 

Before joining Navitus in 2021, Pat held several roles at BNSF Railway, one of North America's largest freight rail networks, including the Director of Medical Benefits & Communication. Her responsibilities included active and retiree healthcare benefit plan design, administration, budgeting, compliance and communication; wellness incentive development; and collective bargaining support for the U.S. and Canada.

She also served as Director of Strategic Programs, Marketing, where she developed programs, policies and marketing collateral to strategically influence the location of BNSF’s carload and intermodal customers.

Pat earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.