Billy Demong, Gold Medalist & Executive Director of USA Nordic - Uptime Logistics

Today is an exciting episode of Uptime Logistics - Doug Draper speaks with Billy Demong, winner of the Olympic Gold Medal during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics - the first gold medal for the US in the realm of Nordic sports. Demong is a five-time Olympian, competing in Nagano, Salt Lake City, Torino, Vancouver and Sochi.

He has been the Executive Director of USA Nordic Sport for the past six years, where he has lead his team of coaches and athletes through growth, training, and international competitions. During his tenure there, he has served through two Olympic Games and three World Championships. Under his watch, Demong oversaw many accomplishments including the transition of the organization from USA Ski Jumping to USA Nordic Sport; Addition of programs for Men’s and Women’s Nordic Combined and Women’s Ski Jumping; Significant growth of the coaching staff and the addition of key personnel in finance, communications, partnership and sponsor fulfillment; Onboarding of key partners, such as NYU Langone, backcountry.com, and Paul Smith’s College; and Significant increase in revenue over his tenure.

Annika Belshaw - athlete with USA Nordic Sport.

Billy introduces us to the sport of Nordic combined, where athetes are both doing energy-intensive cross country skiing as well as highly technical long distance ski jumping. Each requires focused training and he describes some of their innovative techniques for athletic imporvement and progression.

Leading a growing team with many people and pieces of equipment requires expert logistics and a talent for managing uptime. Billy shares his expert experience in keeping the team up and running while traveling for training and competition. He also recounts a recent story where CAP Logistics was able to help him and USA Nordic expedite the transportation of a critical piece of competition gear in less than 14 hours.

Billy also shares many other insightful stories and lessons learned throughout his experiences of training as an athletes to leading a competitive international sports team. He and the other coaches at USA Nordic Sport definitely understand the importance of uptime, and he shares a unique perspective that also readily applies to business and industrial teams and organizations. Watch or listen to today's episode to learn more, and then visit https://usanordic.org