PrestoSports has promoted veteran sports marketer Chris Gonzales to Vice President for Sales and Marketing. Gonzales has spearheaded the company's growth since joining PrestoSports in August, 2005.
"Chris has played a huge role in the doubling of our client base in the last 10 months," PrestoSports CEO Serge Knystautas said. "He's used his expertise to open us up to a national market. His passion for the company is contagious and it's paid off with a strong client base."
PrestoSports, a leading provider of athletic content management software to colleges and conference offices, has experienced unprecedented growth under Gonzales' sales leadership. Since Gonzales has joined the company, PrestoSports gained a national presence, spreading beyond our Mid-Atlantic and New England base into areas such as Arizona, California and Texas.
"PrestoSports has afforded me a great opportunity to grow a company from the ground up," Gonzales said. "In conjunction with everyone else here, we're gaining a lot of momentum, creating great websites throughout college athletics."
Gonzales came to PrestoSports from Sports Systems Services, Inc. For nine years, he helped the Fort Lee, N.J.-based company transition from a fax broadcast company into a multi-faceted sports technology company. Along the way, he developed contacts in college and amateur athletics, motor sports, professional hockey, soccer, basketball, tennis and rodeo.
No stranger to athletic administration, the 1993 Hobart College graduate worked in athletic administration at Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute and Manhattanville (N.Y.) College. Gonzales remains active in college athletics, administering Player of the Week awards for the New York Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association, the Provident Bank Pride of Maryland Basketball tournament and as a statistician for schools such as Army, Georgetown, the Allstate Sugar Bowl and George Mason.
Gonzales and his wife Adrienne, the Sports Information Director at Hood College, make their home in Frederick, Md. with their loyal dog Einstein.
PrestoSports, founded in 2002, is a leading provider of athletic content management software to colleges and conference offices. It markets solutions for website design and hosting, live stats, award management, merchandising, officiating and photo hosting.
PrestoSports features a full-time staff with more than 40 years combined experience in collegiate athletics. It includes former sports information directors, conference administrators and experience in collegiate marketing solutions - all focused on creating innovative web solutions for the company's clients.