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2006.07 Rep of the Year

This year SIA is proud to introduce the first-ever SIA SnowSports Regional Rep of the Year Award.

This award recognizes those sales reps in the snow sports industry that have successfully fostered relationships with retail storefronts to help move winter sports products. Nominations for this accolade came from snow sports retailers in the industry.

Click here for the nomination criteria.

There are nine regional winners and they are:

Atlantic

Atlantic (NY/ PA/ NJ/ DE/ MD)

Tom Beach - (K2/ Phenix Ski)

After college (Williams '68), US Army ('68--'71), and four years in a ski shop, K2 hired Tom in February '76 as their rep in the mid-Atlantic, where he has remained ever since.

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Eastern Lakes

Eastern Lakes (MI/ OH/ IN)

John Kerkhof (Nordica USA)
John Kerkhof is an Independent Sales Representative in the Great Lakes Region, who is partnered with his wife Karen, with a focus towards the Winter Sports sector.

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Mid-West

Mid-West (ND/ MN/ WI/ SD/ IA/ IL/ NE/ MO/ KS/ OK)

Nicholas Pachmayer (Nordica/ Kombi/Uvex/ Select Sport Bags)
Nick’s history spans almost 20 years of involvement within the ski business. His initial start came from his family’s retail ski shops in Wisconsin and his participation within the industry slowly graduated from there.

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Rep NE 200 x 200

Northeast (ME/ VT/ NH/ MA/ RI/ CT)

Peter Kidd - (Dalbello/ Scott/ Blizzard/ Panoptx)

Peter has traveled the New England territory (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut) for the past 27 years.

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Map of Northern California

Northern CA

Mike Rosen (K2/ Morrow/ Atlas/ Yakima)

Mike started in the Ski industry fresh out of college working for Spyder in the Boulder office. He then moved to Tahoe taking a job with Hart and Reusch.

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Northwest

Northwest (WA/ OR/ ID/ MT/ AK)

Krista Moroge (Burton Snowboards)
Krista is currently the owner of SLKC sales agency which represent Burton, Red, Anon, Analog and Gravis and she is their Regional Territory Manager.

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Rockies

Rockies (WY/ UT/ CO/ NM/ TX)

Mike Gagliardi (Never Summer/ 686 Outerwear/ Bluebird Wax/ Drop Gloves/ Neff Headwear/ Life-Link)
Mike "Gags" Gagliardi graduated with a Bachelors degree from Lafayette College in 1981. He spent 10 years in the corporate headhunting business in Chicago.

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South

South (WV/ VA/ KY/ TN/ NC/ SC/ GA/ AL/ MS/ FL/ AR/ LA)

Buck Rowlee (Burton Snowboards)
Buck got his first taste of this wonderful industry in Manchester, NH. After finishing school at UNCW in 1990, he took a job at Southern NH University.

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West

West (Southern CA/ NV/ AZ/ HI)

Mike Day (Scott USA/ Turtle Fur)
Mike started in the ski business in 1969, working for the Garcia Corp, who distributed Fischer, Rossignol, Marker, and Dynafit.

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