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Scott Smith Win Smith
President, Compass HR Designs President
Partner/Co-Founder, Resort HR Partners Sugarbush Resort, VT
Spanning over 30-years, Scott Smith Win Smith is chairman and chief
has extensive background working for executive officer of Summit Ventures NE,
diverse business sectors including LLC, which owns Sugarbush Resort. His
public, consultancy-driven, and private family is the majority owner, and Smith
industry (including a 17-year partnership oversees daily operation of the resort.
with the ski industry). Along with Smith received his bachelor’s degree in
professional certifications and experience in both compensation political science from Amherst College and an MBA from Wharton
and HR, he is a practitioner overseeing broad business functions Graduate. He was an accomplished equestrian and earned varsity
supporting acquisitions and growth management, organizational letters in both soccer and rugby. While at Amherst, Smith discovered
design, regulatory affairs, business and financial solutions, and Sugarbush with college friends, and thus began his passion for
leadership strategies within corporate and international systems for both skiing and the Mad River Valley. After receiving his MBA, Win
varied Fortune 500 firms. Smith is the principal owner of Compass joined Merrill Lynch & Co. as an investment banker and had a 27-
HR Designs, a broad-based firm specializing in corporate policy, year career at the firm. In his final 10 years at Merrill, Smith was
administrative and regulatory compliance, and total compensation an executive vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co., a member of its
systems and design. He is also co-founder/partner for Resort HR executive management committee, and chairman of Merrill Lynch
Good times from the start
Partners, a firm dedicated to supporting hospitality and resort industry. International. Currently he serves on the boards of the Vermont Ski
He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University and Areas Association and NSAA, where he is the incoming chair. He is
attended graduate school at the University of Tennessee. also a director of Eaton Vance Corporation in Boston. In 2017, he
joined the board of the Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
He formerly served as chair of Vermont Business Roundtable and of
the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce. Smith enjoys
most outdoor activities but none so much as skiing. He has four
children, four step-daughters, and six grandchildren.

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