Paula A. Garcia

Paula Garcia is a Global Society Program and Partnership Manager for UpToDate at Wolters Kluwer.

Formerly she was a Marketing Manager at Assette, a provider of cloud-based client communications software to the investment management industry.

Beginning her professional career in Boston, Paula worked for a leading hedge fund in Boston, successfully building out their marketing and client services capabilities. This success led her to get involved in various organizations where she could utilize her skills and passion to help others succeed in their careers and give back to her community. In June of 2012 she co-founded an educational start-up called, The Best Beginning (TBB), which educates young graduates and professionals on networking, personal branding, interview techniques and much more. Earlier this year TBB was partnered with the Boston Business Journal to hold a speaker series on Online Personal Branding.

Also, this past year, Paula was appointed VP of Marketing for ALPFA Boston. ALPFA is the largest Latino association for business professionals and students with 40 professional and over 100 student chapters nationwide and more than 21,000 members. Paula has been a strong advocate and active member of ALPFA Boston since 2010.

Paula is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor degree in Communications and Minor in Marketing. At the University of New Hampshire, she was president of the largest student organization on campus the Diversity Support Coalition and currently volunteers her time serving non-profit organizations that advance Latinos in the city of Boston.

Her love for emerging technologies, mixed with a passion for helping others, is what has always inspired her. These experiences have led her to educate students and professionals on how to leverage their skills, experience, and connections using social media. Her mother always told her to give back as much as you get in life and her work has set out to do that!