Specializing in Recreation Facility Business Plan development and Recreation Facility Management Software.

Rink Smart provides a complete line of services for anyone considering owning and operating a recreational facility. From an initial business plan to a full turnkey facility, we can be there every step of the way to make sure it gets done right.

Recreation Facility Management Software

Rink Smart also offers roller hockey and indoor soccer facility management software. It has been developed by someone who has the experience in running one of the largest roller hockey facilities in the country. It is one of the most comprehensive packages available on the market and comes with an extremely affordable price tag. It even comes with web site built specifically for what a recreational facility needs.

Sports Facility Business Plan Manual

Rink Smart offers those of you who are looking to develop their own recreational sports facility a complete “do-it-yourself” sports facility business plan manual. This manual comes complete with an actual business plan for a fictitious sports facility in a fictitious location.

It includes everything we would do for a client plus includes specific directions to each section and an Excel spreadsheet that includes a modifiable three-year financial statement, competitive research study, and sample start-up costs. CLICK HERE for more details.

Rink Smart Professional Services

We also provide numerous other consulting services including competitive market studies, market research studies, three-year financial plans, complete business plan development, and business plan reviews.

Outside the business plan we offer equipment buying services, fundraising assistance, building construction assistance, and hourly, weekly, or monthly retainers. CLICK HERE for more details.

If you are in need of assistance with an existing program, we can help with that as well. League development, marketing, tournaments, and facility management are all areas in which we have extensive experience. We can also help you improve your operations. So, take some time to look at our site to see what we have to offer can help you run a smart and successful facility!

Corporate Management

John Giacchino - President, CFO / Founder

Mr. Giacchino is a graduate of Rutgers University in the field of Business Economics and Computer Science. He also has an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. He started his career employed by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace where he worked in the Business Operations Division creating and managing operating plans for the Commercial Aircraft Division.

Mr. Giacchino started his sports facility career in 1992 managing the local roller hockey leagues for the Saddleback Valley school district in southern California. In 1997 Worldwide Roller Hockey Facilities, owners and operators of the Wayne Gretzky Roller Hockey Centers hired Mr. Giacchino to be the General Manager of their first facility in Irvine, CA.

There he developed many of the operating procedures and marketing materials for the company. Mr. Giacchino also wrote the facility management database program that handles the registration and league operations for the facilities. His system was used in all of the Gretzky Centers.

Two years later Mr. Giacchino served as the Director of Operations for the corporate office. There he was responsible for the operations for all of the Gretzky Centers. During that time Mr. Giacchino helped open and manage five additional facilities.

In 2002 Mr. Giacchino left Worldwide Roller Hockey Facilities to start his own recreational facility consulting business. He started Rink Smart, LLC and after a short while his friend and former co-worker, Andrew LoBue, joined him. Mr. Giacchino handles most of the software and web site projects for the company.

Andrew LoBue - VP, Chief Executive Officer / Founder

Mr. LoBue is a graduate of North Carolina State University in the field of Electrical Engineering. In the year 1999 he started the planning and fundraising for his first sports facility project. He became the founder of Sportsplex Ventures, LLC and authored the original business plan and assisted in construction of 72,000 square foot indoor sports facility. He is also responsible for raising $3.5M in Venture Capital for the Sportsplex Ventures project and initiated and negotiated partnership with Worldwide Facilities Management (Wayne Gretzky Roller Hockey Centers).

In 2001 the doors opened as Mr. LoBue acted as the General Manager for the Gretzky Center in Cary, North Carolina for its first year of operation. Those responsibilities included overseeing the day to day operations of the facility, training of employees, interviewing, assessment and hiring of personnel, overseeing financial transactions related to programming, obtaining and managing all accounts, and the strategic planning and pricing of new accounts.

He also handled the marketing and promotion of facility, implementing and enforcing all company policies and procedures, discipline of staff and/or members for infractions, and implementing all company issued marketing plans and promotional events.

In 2003 Mr. LoBue joined Mr. Giacchino as part of Rink Smart, LLC. Mr. LoBue handles most of the facility development projects for Rink Smart.