Profile Products holds first multi-industry national distributor leadership conference

Profile Products hosted its 2017 Distributor Leadership Conference, its first-ever combined conference event for all domestic distributors of the company’s various divisions and product lines, March 13-15.

The three-day conference, held at the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort, focused on critical topics impacting business development for all of Profile’s business partners in sports field, erosion control, landscape, and golf course maintenance and management.

“This is both an exciting and consequential time for companies serving the needs of professionals in every aspect of turf, landscape, and athletic field management,” said Jim Tanner, president of Profile Products. “Economic, regulatory and environmental changes are occurring at a rapid pace. By hosting its first ever multi-industry conference, Profile Products gave its distribution partners the chance to exchange best practices, hear from experts in multiple disciplines, and gain new insight into ways to grow their businesses.”

Featuring speakers from sales and marketing, government relations, landscape architecture, environmental protection and other disciplines, the 2017 Distributor Leadership Conference attracted attendees from more than 80 distributor firms from coast to coast.

In addition to executive and specialty presenters from within Profile Products, attendees heard from experts including:

• Jeff Blackman, President of Blackman & Associates, keynote speaker and best-selling business author.
• Chad Ritterbusch, Executive Director of the American Society of Golf Course Architects.
• Mike Rozow, Relationship Manager, LinkedIn.
• Tony Sattler, Vice President of Digital Assets, Swanson Russell Associates, a marketing agency specializing in agribusiness and green industry clients.
• Blake Tullis, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Utah Water Research Laboratory.
• Andy Wright, President of Washington D.C.-based government relations firm Wright Strategies.
• Jason Straka, Principal in Fry / Straka Global Golf Course Design
• Neil Hughes, Northern Region President of HUB International Ltd
• Don Campbell, PLA R.W. Droll Landscape Architects
• Chad Price, President of Carolina Green Corporation
• Terry Marsh, Owner of Fox Erosion Control

Profile’s 2017 conference also featured presentations from authorities in landscape and golf course design, sports turf construction, data management and security, among others.

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