Throughout her career Ekima has held various accounting and finance positions with responsibilities including quarterly earnings preparation, retail forecast modeling, inventory management, supplier relationship management and departmental budgets oversight. While her career has spanned across the corporate sector, Ekima has always had a passion for event planning and design, prompting her to open The Five Party & Event Center in 2020. Ekima Smith earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Ohio State University and her MBA from Franklin University.