Sutton Bacon is a private investor and business executive with experience across a variety of segments of the outdoor industry, including retail, recreation, hospitality, consumer products, and events. He has served on numerous boards, ranging from small entrepreneurial ventures to publicly traded companies to influential trade and non-profit boards within the industry.

Sutton is a noted conservationist and one of the nation’s leading advocates for sustainable public lands management and the economic impacts of the outdoors. A former Class V whitewater kayaker, Sutton’s passion is to share the outdoors with others through his business activities and personal activism.

NATIONAL AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• Outdoor Advocacy Leadership Award, Outdoor Industry Association

• Outdoor Inspiration Award, Outdoor Industry Association

• Top 10 Industry Power Players, SNEWS

• 40 Under 40 Award, Sporting Goods Business

• Hero of Small Business, US House of Representatives