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Brynn Grant

Brynn Grant: Executive Director

Brynn Grant joined the Savannah Economic Development Authority (SEDA) as Director of Marketing and Public Relations – again – in February 2004. She served the organization in the same capacity from 1996 to 1999. During that time and since, many of SEDA’s marketing programs and materials have been recognized nationally and internationally. In 1998, she was privileged to be a member of the SEDA team named one of the Top Ten Development Groups in North America.

In the interim, Brynn served in several capacities. She was vice president of communications for EM Services, Inc., maintained her own marketing and public relations consulting business and later served as marketing and development director then associate director for the Savannah Music Festival. Before returning to SEDA, Brynn proudly represented Savannah Technical College as director of development and executive director of the STC Foundation.

From 1993-1996, Brynn was the administrator and director of marketing for the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame (GGHF) in Augusta. There, Brynn was instrumental in the planning and development of a then-estimated $32 million golf and garden attraction. When she started as the first full time staff person, the annual budget totaled only $25,000 and within three years, the organization enjoyed an annual operating budget of more than $650,000 and had $12 million committed for development of the attraction.

While serving the GGHF, Brynn was named one of Augusta’s Thirty Leaders Under Thirty to Watch by the Augusta Chronicle. Later, in 2002, while working at the Savannah Music Festival, she was named one of Savannah’s “40 under 40” by the Business Report and Journal.

Brynn began her career at Vawter & Vawter Advertising in Savannah after graduating from the University of Georgia with a degree in Journalism in 1991.

An avid proponent of technical education, Brynn is a member of the Savannah Technical College Foundation Board of Directors and recently chaired the 2006 Opportunity Gala honoring former US Attorney General Judge Griffin Bell. With Step Up, Savannah’s Poverty Reduction Initiative, another closely related effort to improve the community, she serves as Communications Team Champion. Brynn is a graduate of Leadership Savannah, was a founding member of the Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club, has been a member of the Savannah Jaycees, and the Tourism Leadership Council. Still a member of the Savannah Advertising Federation, she has just stepped down as Chair of the ADDY Awards. Brynn has also served in many volunteer leadership capacities from chairing the celebration of the 200 Club’s Sea to Shining Sea event to raise money for the families of fallen police officers to coordinating various events and initiatives in her children’s schools.