Billy Smith

Experience

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  Sportwide, (Hind)

  Aug 1987 - Jun 1992

  Team Sales
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  Venue Sports

  May 1992 - Sept 2003

  Cofounder

  Cofounder and CEO of Venue Sports.Initially started as full service team dealer in San Luis Obispo, CA servicing cross country, track & field, soccer, football, basketball, and baseball teams with footwear and uniforms.Streamlined into Track & Field and Cross Country only with national marketing campaigns and newly developed website.Innovated the InSport Barcelona Shimlet (cross between a shimmel and a singlet). The first legal tight fitting women's top with a liner that covered the midrift, a legal top for HS and Collegiate teams.Developed Venue Sports private label team uniforms and warm up. Show less

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  VS Athletics

  Oct 2003 - Aug 2013

  CEO

  Executed merger of Venue Sports and Springco Athletics becoming a full line track & field manufacture and dealer.Distributor for major track & field brands, Adidas, ASICS, Brooks, Denfi, Gill, New Balance, Nike, Polanik, Puma, Stackhouse.Responsible for development of VS private label warmups, uniforms, and shoes.Highlights include: Sourcing and creating custom sublimation uniforms. Developing VS Centrifugal Throw shoe with Dan Mecca. Promoting and increasing sales of VS Weightlifting shoe. Designed affordable warm up with exceptional sales. Show less

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  Athletics Universe

  Sept 2013 - Apr 2016

  Athletics Entrepreneur

  Authorized New Balance Licensee for athletics uniforms.Responsible for development, production, marketing, and delivery of New Balance uniforms for track & field and cross country teams.Sourced Factories for sublimation and stock production.Completed factory compliance process through BVOS.Worked in conjunction with NB to select fabrics and develop patterns for track & field and cross country uniforms.Created website, NewBalanceTeamAthletics.com. Unique section is the Shop By Team Page. This section showed all the teams we created uniforms for, and existed as functional order pages for teams and individuals to order their team uniforms.Worked with FedEx on DR-CAFTA compliance for shipments from Costa Rica.Marketing through meets and clinics and work with seed teams provided by NB Sports Marketing. Show less

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  New Balance

  Apr 2016 - now

  National Sales Manager New Balance Teamsports/Track & Field