Alex Smith (born November 6, 1986, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American entrepreneur, community activist, and philanthropist.
He is the co-founder & CEO of the venture backed 3BG Supply Co., an industrial automation and distribution company and the winner of Fort Wayne Business Weekly's "Emerging Company of the Year" award, Business Weekly's overall "Innovators of the Year" award and named a nominee in TechPoint's 16th Annual Mira Awards which recognizes the best in technology in Indiana.
Nominees are chosen by more than 40 subject matter experts, of which, 3BG was nominated Tech Innovation of the year.He is also the co-founder of A Better Fort, co-founder of BAALS Music Festival, creator of the #HipHop4theCity (MY CITY) music project, and the business manager of Nyzzy Nyce, an American rapper and founder of the Hurricane Music Group.
Smith is a recipient of the 2014 Fort Wayne Business Weekly "40 Under 40" award, Journal Gazette’s FOCUS: Rookie of the Year in 2014 and a Bishop Dwenger Hall of Fame Inductee as Alumnus of the Year 2015.