SINGER

Manufacturer Representative, The Predator Group

As vice-president at Predator Group, Singer is currently leading operations, designing key business processes, and leveraging information technology to create efficiencies, as well as driving innovative communication plans.

With nearly 20 years of management, marketing and sales experience in the billiards industry at Predator Group and Kozoom.com, Singer has developed a strong understanding of the global billiard market and of what billiard fans love and are looking for.

BCA VICE-CHAIR

Shane Bouchard

Retailer Representative, Maine Home Recreation

Shane Bouchard is the owner of Maine Home Recreation in Lewiston, Maine and has more than 23 years in the billiard industry.

Over his career, Bouchard has served as chairman of the BCA and as well as leading the membership and marketing committee.

Bca Treasurer Nick Kroll

Manufacturer Representative, Qco, home of Viking Cues

Nick Kroll acquired Middleton, Wisconsin-based Viking Cues Manufacturing in December 2020 and serves as the organization’s owner and CEO.

A results-orientated, value-based leader with more than 25 years of professional experience in varying industries, Kroll has spent the past two decades as president and CEO of a trio of different closely held manufacturing businesses. He has a substantial background in change management, family business matters, profitable revenue growth, manufacturing, distribution, organizational culture development, strategic planning and development/commercialization.

Kroll leads organizations through change cycles in the interest of enabling them to further reach their true potential. Change is challenging for organizations and requires a determined, focused, and steady leader. Kroll provides this leadership by empowering people within the organization to make decisions and take action within the context of established organizational values, a known plan, and in the interest of serving the customer. He subscribes to the philosophy of “building customers for life,” knowing without the customer, there is no business. Providing solutions to customers both through product and service is paramount to success.

He holds a BA in economics from Saint Norbert College and an MBA from Marquette University. Kroll also serves on several for profit and nonprofit

Since Sandcastle’s inception, he’s further served the industry by organizing, promoting, officiating, announcing and commentating at professional events such as the U.S. Open, and International Open. Liddawi became affiliated with BCA Hall of Famer Pat Fleming in 2011 to house the Accu-Stats arena at Sandcastle Billiards to promote and host events together.

Debbie Corvey

Deborah Corvey is the CEO and founder of Boynton Billiards. Her career in billiards began in 1991 when she purchased a small pool room, which she doubled in size in a few months. She opened a retail store in 1993 and expanded to two stores in 2001.

Bca Secretary Ed Liddawi

Ed Liddawi is proprietor of Sandcastle Billiards in Edison, New Jersey. An enthusiast and purist of the game for more than 25 years, Liddawi has sponsored several world class players during their visits to the U.S. for professional competition.

Corvey brought the BCA Pool Leagues to Palm Beach County, operating a traveling league, including hosting a junior BCA qualifying event. She escorted the winner to Las Vegas, where he eventually placed second in the Junior National Championships.

Over the years, Corvey has served on many dealer advisory boards including Vitalie Manufacturing, Gandy, and Olhausen. She has worked with many manufacturers in their booths at various wholesale and design trade shows all over the country. Locally, she is an avid supporter and volunteer for first responders and needy groups in her city.

Jacklyn Ady

Jacklyn Ady is a design and business leader passionate about product development, business and marketing strategy, social innovation, and creative entrepreneurship.

Ady is the director of product development for the Brunswick Billiards Group, overseeing product design strategy for Brunswick Billiards, American Heritage Billiards, and Cue & Case. In her roles, she is responsible for leading design and engineering teams, guiding product vision, and identifying and applying market design trends to create future innovation across the billiards category.

Ady holds a Bachelor of Science in industrial design from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and a Master of Business Administration in the Global Leader Program from the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business.

Throughout her career, she has designed commercial and residential furniture, game room furniture, sporting goods, and children's toys, as well as conducted design research and managed product development cycles.

She also teaches as an adjunct at the University of Evansville in ChangeLab, Master of Science in Leadership, and Organizational Leadership programs. She instructs classes on innovation, strategic decision-making, and social entrepreneurship.

Robbie Selby

Manufacturer Representative, R and R Outdoors

Robbie Selby is the founder and managing director of Naples, Florida-based R and R Outdoors. She has worn all hats since first acquiring All Weather Billiards in 2013—which was then a small manufacturing company with just one employee—from a gentleman that was a pool player and a craftsman. Her tenacity and business acumen grew the company to a level and product volume that after seven years, needed to scale beyond the Naples capability.

Now teamed up with the Olhausen facility and family, the company has reached even greater milestones in volume, quality and product design.

Her diverse background in finance, advertising, leadership, operations and entrepreneurship provides a fresh and high-level insight to the BCA. Now with her experience of learning manufacturing from such a large factory and team at Olhausen Billiards, she has even more to offer.

Trey Stites

Manufacturer Representative, Valley Dynamo / Champion Shuffleboard

During the fall of 2020, Trey Stites left his career at Raymond James Financial to join Valley-Dynamo as national sales manager, proudly following in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather before him. Since high school, he has also worked in sanding and packaging at Valley-Dynamo. This experience has given him a special respect for the “art” of manufacturing in the United States, as well as the incredible amount of discipline one must have to achieve success in this competitive environment.

Following stops in Norman Oklahoma and Houston, Stites now lives with his wife in Fort Worth, Texas.

Today, Stites is excited to work with a very experienced group of members on the BCA board to take the billiards industry to the next level.

MARIA MARTINEZ-TRENT Beyer & Brown/Pool Tables Plus

Maria Martinez-Trent is the owner of Beyer & Brown/Pool Tables Plus, providing game room products that help people connect at home and in entertainment establishments. Martinez-Trent has been a member of the BCA since 2001 and is also an active and supportive member of the Amusement Music Operators of America.

Martinez-Trent has more than 20 years of serving on various marketing and outreach boards that have allowed her to expand her knowledge and ability of working with people of different backgrounds and personalities to create more meaningful and productive collaborations. She is passionate about building industry relationships and advocates for support of yearly education programs and membership drives.

She is excited for the opportunity to work with the BCA board and its members to promote the billiard industry as a whole.

With a drive to help others, MartinezTrent is eager to share her talents to better serve the needs of small business owners. She dedicates her free time to her husband, Greg Trent, and their blended family of six amazing children and five loving grandchildren.