Nancy Paton

Nancy Paton serves as the Vice President and Chief Communications and Marketing Officer for Indiana University. In this role, she creates and leads the university’s overall communications and marketing strategy — inclusive of brand management, marketing, digital communications, internal and external communications, events and conferences, corporate sponsorships, trademarks and licensing, and issues management and crisis communications.

A transformational communications and marketing leader with previous executive leadership roles spanning three national research universities, as well as nationally renowned academic health care organizations, Nancy was appointed to her role at IU in spring 2022.

Previously, she served as the inaugural chief communications and marketing executive at the University of Florida and the University at Buffalo. An award-winning strategist, Nancy was named the Higher Education Marketer of the Year by the American Marketing Association.

She is a national author and speaker with a love of teaching integrated communications and marketing strategy. Nancy has served as Lecturer in the Master’s Concentration in Public Relations for the School of Media and Journalism at Kent State University in Ohio.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in mass media and communications from the University of Akron and a Master of Science in management from Purdue University