Class of 2024

Patricia “Pat” Hottel, BCE, is a respected pest management trainer and leader thanks to another Pest Management Professional (PMP) Hall of Famer. Dr. Austin Frishman, who was inducted as part of the Class of 2002, put her on the path to pest control.

“Dr. Frishman is why I’m here,” she says. “He was quite the dynamic teacher and worked to actively recruit students into his program. Not too many of us started as entomology majors or were considering structural pest management as a career. I entered college as a biology major and left as an entomologist. I will forever be thankful to him for that.”

Learning and teaching have been the hallmarks of Hottel’s career. She has spent nearly five decades sharing her pest control knowledge, first at Bermuda Pest Control, and then at McCloud Services. Because of the latter company’s 2019 acquisition by Terminix, and 2022 acquisition by Rentokil, she now works for Rentokil Terminix.

“Making sure I provide technical and training support for technicians always has been important to me,” she says. As a technical manager with a primary role in fumigation, Hottel says her main job at the company is technical support. She is still involved in training, too.

“Dr. Frishman would say, ‘Your success is my success,’” Hottel explains. “As a trainer, I have used that attitude through the years to guide me in what I do. When serving in my training and technical roles, I use his words in focusing on what is really important. The goal is to make sure those I support are successful.”