Grom, Mary Ellen

Currently leading marketing and corporate communications across AFL’s global product and services portfolio. Driven each day to protect and extend the company brand combined with the strategic development and creative implementation of internal associate and external customer marketing messages

Mary Ellen joined AFL in 2017 after 25 years in the IT channel distribution industry where she served as Vice President US Marketing at TD SYNNEX. Prior to that, she was the Marketing Director with ScanSource, Inc., and at Experience Engineering as Experience Director, leading strategic customer initiatives with several retail, financial and hospitality clients.

Mary Ellen was instrumental in launching AFL's employee resource group, Women Everywhere Connect (WeCONNECT), which aims to educate and empower fellow team members in building their careers in manufacturing. She currently serves on the Women in Manufacturing Association and Sustain SC Board of Directors and is a 2-time past Board Chair of the Women in Manufacturing Education Foundation.
A graduate of The Ohio State University, Mary Ellen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications/Marketing, in addition to a Marketing Ducktorate Degree from Walt Disney World College in Orlando, Florida. She resides in Greenville, South Carolina with her high school sweetheart husband and two young adult children.