Paul Garofolo is entering his first full season as General Manager of the Cleveland Crunch Garofolo joined the team in March of the 1998-99 season. Garofolo is also President of Signature Sports and Marketing, Inc. and has over twenty years of  experience in sports marketing, athlete representation, and event management.
 
    In 10 years of professional soccer experience he rose through the ranks to become Vice President and General Manager of the Cleveland Force. Paul then went on to join the international sports marketing firm, ProServ, Inc.
 
    At ProServ, Garofolo's responsibilities included overseeing many of ProServ's national sporting events and their corresponding marketing efforts. His responsibilities annually included marquee events such as The Volvo Tennis Tour,  The Budweiser 3 on 3 Challenge, The AT&T Challenge, The Caribbean Sports Festival, and the Hawaiian Punch "Punchy Sports" Program. Garofolo worked at ProServ with top client agents David Falk and Jerry Solomon in conjunction with their clients including Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins, Patrick Ewing, James Worthy, Greg Lemond, Jimmy Connors, and Ivan Lendl.
 
    In addition, Garofolo served as the Executive Director of the International Professional Water Ski Tour, a ProServ Client. Jack Nicklaus and the Wolstein Group as Sr. Vice President of Sales to develop Barrington, a 600 acre,  private Master planned residential community and private golf club.
 
    In 1992, Garofolo founded Signature with a corporate goal of developing three areas of business as the foundation of the firm. The first area of interest was in athlete representation. This area of concentration focused on endorsements/client marketing. The second area was a consultant to corporations, sports properties and leagues in their strategic planning,     marketing, licensing, and execution. The third area was in the field of event management and marketing. Garofolo is also a founding partner in the new International Basketball League and serves on the Board of North American Sports Camps, the largest youth day camp program in the United States.
 
    Garofolo, a graduate of Ohio University, is a native of Pittsburgh and is married to wife Sharon. Together they have three children.

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