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Tom Smith is the President & CEO of Buffbrite, a company that has a passion for the detail and car care industry. Tom has over 40 years of experience in the detail industry, started his own business at the age of 14, and put himself through college detailing cars. After earning his college degree, he started and ran a company that after five years he sold to a large detailing, high production shop, in Boise Idaho. From there he became involved in the supply side and started developing and managing supply trucks in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, a business he built and ran for 30 years, of which he sold in 2021. In 2017 he started developing efficiency tools for detailers and currently Buffbrite has over 480 distributors around the world. Tom also serves on the Board of Directors with the IDA.
SHOW SPONSORS
Covercraft • American Collectors Insurance • Autogeek • Linkage Magazine • Techforce Foundation • RPM Foundation • Zengine
INSPIRATION
Chip Foose has been a great inspiration to Tom.
CHALLENGE
Tom’s mantra is: Diversification, having the ability to pivot when you need to is paramount to success. Balance in business and life has been a challenge.
SPECIAL VEHICLE
SEMA build 1969 Camaro hot rod he built
Choose to be happy.
WHERE TO FIND TOM
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