Management
Steven Grossman Treasurer & Receiver General
Steve Grossman brings to the office of Treasurer and Receiver General a family heritage of public service, a lifetime dedicated to helping others, and years of experience as a hard-working businessman with a sense of responsibility for the well-being of his colleagues and his community.
He is committed to using the full potential of the Treasurers office to protect the publics money, help create jobs, boost small businesses, and bring new standards of transparency and disclosure to state government. Throughout his career he has had an unshakeable commitment to recruiting, hiring, and retaining the most qualified people, based on merit, and that principle will guide his new administration.
Steve has spent the last 35 years creating jobs, managing money, dealing with crises, and finding commonsense solutions to problems as CEO of Grossman Marketing Group in Somerville, a 100-year-old, fourth-generation family business. He grew the companys revenues eightfold, entering new markets and repositioning the company to meet the challenges of an evolving economy. Steve knows what its like to meet a payroll and to keep a business going in tough times, and he brings that expertise and commitment to public office.
He is a leading figure in numerous charitable organizations. Steve serves as a trustee of Project Bread, an advisory board member of the Womens Lunch Place, and chairs the advisory board of Cambridge College. He was a founding board member of Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), a former campaign chair of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and a founding board member of the Lenny Zakim Fund.
As chairman of both the Massachusetts and national Democratic parties, Steve established a track record as a reformer and builder working aggressively to implement effective management and financial controls while at the same time empowering more activists to participate in political life.
He was elected Treasurer in 2010.
Steve is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. His wife, Dr. Barbara Wallace Grossman, a theater historian, author, and director, is a professor at Tufts University and serves as Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. They have three sons, David, Ben, and Josh.
Paul R. Sternburg Executive Director
Treasurer Steven Grossman named Paul R. Sternburg Executive Director of the Massachusetts State Lottery on January 2011, making him the 10th director since the Lotterys inception in 1971.
As Executive Director, Paul is responsible for leading the operations of the Lotterys five regional offices and its 400 employees, as well as a network of over 7,400 retailers that work together to generate more than $4.5 billion in revenue and return $900 million each year in local aid to the Commonwealth's 351 cities and towns.
Paul brings over 13 years of lottery industry experience to the Executive Director position. Paul joined the Massachusetts Lottery from the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, where he served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing since 2007. During his three years with the CLC, he implemented innovative marketing programs and introduced successful new games that helped boost the quasi-public organizations sales to record levels.
Prior to joining the CLC, Paul spent more than a decade at the Massachusetts Lottery, serving as Director of Sales and before that as Assistant Director of Regional Operations.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the University of Rhode Island. He and his family reside in Watertown, MA.
