We Are Synthesus
Learn about Patty Backman and how she can help your small or mid-size business.
Who We Are
Synthesus Founder and CEO Patty Backman started her career in smaller businesses across the insurance, banking and technology industries, with a formative stint working in small business accounting for one of the largest legacy CPA firms. As she moved on to multinational corporations, she recognized that organizations of all sizes face similar challenges — even if the number of zeroes on the balance sheet are different.
While working in those global organizations, she saw consultants come and go but rarely saw their recommendations implemented. She realized she could apply her three decades of executive operations experience toward helping smaller and midsized businesses by identifying the root causes of their toughest operational challenges AND by staying to implement the solutions.

About Patty Backman, CMA
An energetic and resourceful leader, Patty possesses extensive expertise in operations leadership across finance, HR, IT and communications within small, regional and international environments. She maintains a strong reputation for continuous reinvention of organizations, drawing from her work with Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft Corporation, Citigroup and the Los Angeles Rams Football Company.
Inquisitive by nature with a knack for common-sense flexibility, Patty brings well-developed strategic and tactical skills to every engagement and operational implementation. She is a certified management accountant (CMA) who holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from California State University.
Now based in the Greater Philadelphia area, she provides fractional executive services to companies throughout the region and beyond.