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⸻ BOB SMITH Founder & CEO | NIL Sports Business Association (NILSBA) Founder | NationsBest NIL Ecosystem Builder of infrastructure across athlete, brand, and league alignment. Bob Smith didn’t enter the NIL era — he architected the lanes that power it. With more than 35 years in the business of sports, Smith has operated across memorabilia, licensing, athlete branding, media IP, league development, and digital monetization. Long before NIL became policy, he was building systems — understanding how athletes create value, how brands capture attention, and how sustainable deal flow is structured. In 2009, Smith founded NationsBest I.P., laying the groundwork for what would become a multi-layered NIL infrastructure platform spanning youth, high school, collegiate, and professional athletics. Today, that ecosystem includes: • NationsBest NIL Dream Team • National NIL Athlete Registry • National NIL Parent Registry • National NIL Brand Registry • NationsBest Football • Strategic NIL licensing initiatives • Category development across emerging NIL verticals At the center of this architecture is infrastructure — not hype. Discoverability. Valuation. Compliance. Governance. Deal execution. In 2026, Smith founded the NIL Sports Business Association (NILSBA) — the first national trade association dedicated to structuring, standardizing, and advancing the business of NIL across athletes, parents, brands, collectives, institutions, and advisors. Where NationsBest builds opportunity, NILSBA builds standards. Smith’s work focuses on long-term system design: aligning incentives, expanding total ecosystem value, and protecting athlete leverage at scale. He is not predicting the future of NIL. He is helping build the framework it runs on. ⸻ 🌐 Ecosystem Links NIL Sports Business Association (NILSBA) https://www.nilsba.org NationsBest NIL Dream Team https://www.nildreamteam.com National NIL Athlete Registry https://www.nilathleteregistry.com National NIL Parent Registry https://www.nilparentregistry.com National NIL Brand Registry https://www.nilbrandregistry.com NationsBest Football https://www.nationsbestfootball.com