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JM Family Enterprises Announces Four Senior-Level Promotions

Rajeev Ravindran was named CIO, while Hank Grooms was appointed vice president of marketing and field operations for Southeast Toyota Distributors. Additionally, Ed Brown will now serve as group vice president of operations, while Jonna Sherry was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing for World Omni.

by Staff
February 9, 2016
2 min to read


DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — JM Family Enterprises has announced four senior-level promotions as part of its long-term growth strategy.

Rajeev Ravindran was named CIO, while Hank Grooms was appointed vice president of marketing and field operations for Southeast Toyota Distributors. Additionally, Ed Brown was named group vice president of operations, while Jonna Sherry was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing for World Omni.

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Ravindran first joined the company in 2003 as director of architecture and worked in a variety of leadership positions within information technology services. Most recently, he served as group vice president of ITS, overseeing the direction of technology across the enterprise.

Grooms began with JM Family Enterprises in 1990 as a branch operations manager for a company subsidiary, World Omni Financial Corp. He has held various leadership roles throughout his 25-year career with the company.

Brown joined the company in 2003 and held various leadership roles; his most recent position was group vice president of healthcare services for aviation and marine.

Sherry joined the company in 2014 as assistant vice president of marketing. She has 20 years of leadership experience in marketing, having served at Ford Motor Co., Carfax and Volkswagen Credit. During her time with World Omni, she guided the restructuring of the marketing team, including the addition of the newly established Plans, Programs and Analytics Groups, and led the development implementation of the company’s digital strategy.

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