Paula Grooms

A former member of the Ingenuity Board of Directors, Paula Grooms joined the 2008 Ingenuity Festival staff with the vision of managing and implementing Ingenuity’s aggressive marketing and sponsorship campaign, bringing to it more than 30 years of creative and marketing experience as a respected marketing expert and experienced manager of multi-functional teams for both corporate and non-profit clients.

Grooms is a seasoned manager of print production, media planning, media sales, video, film and multimedia production, public relations, marketing, account servicing, corporate communications and web marketing. As Senior Vice President at IMG, Grooms spearheaded IMG’s creative business communications worldwide as head of IMG Creative, where she managed corporate communications projects, collaborated routinely with IMG’s top executives, created the company’s corporate communications materials, and managed the rollouts of two new branding initiatives.

Before IMG, Grooms was the President and Executive Producer for Craft’s College Previews, and also owned and operated her own graphic design, film, video and multi-media production company for nine years. Ms. Grooms currently sits on the Board of Directors and is Marketing Chair for MOCA Cleveland (Museum of Contemporary Art), and is the founding president of the Cleveland Chapter of WISE, Women in Sports and Events.

Grooms is an active mentor with the Cleveland Foundation’s Civic Innovation Lab, and has served on the local organizing and marketing committees for several major events in Cleveland over the years, including the Intel Science and Engineering Fair, The International Children’s Games, the Ingenuity Festival of Art + Technology, and the NCAA Women’s Final Four of Basketball.

Grooms completed undergraduate work at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with graduate studies at the University of Iowa and Case Western Reserve University.