Bryan Smeltzer

Bryan Smeltzer is a successful consumer products business executive and entrepreneur. He has held executive-level roles in business development, product, and marketing with some of the world's most iconic brands, including; Oakley, TaylorMade, Adidas, K-Swiss, and Schutt Sports, among other international brands. He also founded a men's apparel brand, successfully running a profitable business for ten years, eventually selling to a Venture Capital firm.

Smeltzer created and hosts The Visionary Chronicles podcast, recently ranked as the #1 global Visionary podcast and the top 50 Marketing podcast by Feedspot in 2022 and 2023.

Smeltzer recently finished his first bestselling book, The Visionary Brand, The Success Formula Behind the World's Most Visionary Brands. He received the Readers Favorite Award for Best, Non-fiction, Marketing Genre book.

Smeltzer has been a featured guest speaker at numerous prestigious Universities, speaking predominantly to entrepreneurial and innovation-driven curriculums. He has spoken at the University of Southern California (USC) Irvine and Young Academy for Entrepreneurship, the University of California Irvine (UCI) Master of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program, and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, along with global consumer products brands.

He is also a member of the Board of Advisors at UCI's BCIE along with their New Venture Program, an Innovation Advisor at the UCI's Applied Innovation program at the Cove, a Mentor/Advisor to UCLA's Price Center Venture Accelerator Program, and a Mentor/Advisor at the San Diego Sports Innovators Accelerator (SDSI) center. Smeltzer oversees LiquidMind Inc., a global brand strategy firm that partners with start-ups and mid to large-cap consumer brands to empower their businesses to think different, be different, drive a passionate culture, and execute relentlessly.