David Smith

LACHSA Board Member
LACHSA Alumni Parent (Music)

David Smith is founder and President of ShowPro, with more than 30 years of success spanning entertainment, production, live entertainment, events, and music for large-scale productions. His broad areas of expertise include live concerts and special events, integrated marketing, music artist promotion, executive producing, line producing, and emerging technology integration.

He built one of the first “media buses”, or experiential activation vehicles equipped with video walls, monitors, and sound systems, David is the President of ShowPro, which he launched in 1997 and which is one of the few fully-staffed projection mapping and interactive visual companies in the US and is a pioneer in mapped video projection. He has provided full service production to large mainstream award show events, including the Governor’s Ball for the Oscar’s and Emmy’s and the Grammy’s celebration for 20 years, as well as presidential campaigns, internationally-broadcast fashion events, and art shows, parades for the Lakers World Championship.

David holds a BS in Music from the University of Colorado. His business has won multiple awards, including the Clean California Business Award in 2015 for installing a warehouse solar panel system, and various special event awards including Best Use of Technology, Best Video Company, and Best Product Innovation.