Women in Sports Business Symposium
"Get Your Head in the Game: Connect with Peers, Meet a Mentor, Leave a Legacy”

Women in Sports Business MBA Scholarship

Part of the 2007 WSBS initiative was to announce the development of an endowed scholarship fund for female MBA students in the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon. This idea was spear-headed by past WSBS panelist and career counselor, Cathy Griffin, and her three principal founding partners: past WSBS Woman of the Year Award recipients Val Ackerman and Lee Ann Daly, and past WSBS panelist Paula Votaw-Miller. 2007 WSBS Woman of the Year Ilana Kloss also contributed substantially to this effort.

In keeping with the spirit of the Symposium, the goal of the scholarship fund is to contribute materially to the emergence of women in sports by providing future female sports business leaders with financial resources to achieve their educational goals. We hope that you will consider contributing to this effort.

Please click here to register for the 2008 WSBS Luncheon.

Paula Votaw-Miller
Managing Director of Corporate and Human Services
International Speedway Corporation

Paula Miller, serves as International Speedway Corporation’s Managing Director of Corporate and Human Services. ISC, a premier motorsports entertainment company, is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida and is publicly traded under ISCA on NasdaqNM.

Prior to joining International Speedway Corporation, Miller worked in human resources for General Electric for thirteen years. Her career there included management positions in many different businesses, including Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati, Ohio, GE Capital in Jacksonville, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. Her final assignment prior to joining ISC, was leading executive and sales development at GE’s corporate headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Miller is active in the Daytona Beach community. She was the Director of Operations for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure prior to its relocation to Orlando and she currently serves as the Chairman of the St. James Episcopal School Board.

Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Miller obtained a B.S. in organizational communication with cum laude honors at Ohio University in 1985 and earned her Masters degree in business at Purdue University in 1987. An avid golfer and music buff, Paula is married to Brad Miller and has two children, Sam and Caroline Votaw, 13 and 9 respectively.