Sally J. Smith

SALLY J. SMITH, President and Chief Executive Officer of Buffalo Wild
Wings, Inc., is one of the few female CEOs in the restaurant industry.
Ms. Smith leads the national Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar restaurant
empire that includes more than 250 restaurants across 30 states. In
November of last year she took Buffalo Wild Wings through a very
successful IPO ‘ the first IPO of a Minnesota-based company since March
2002. Buffalo Wild Wings’ stock price shot up 35% on the first day of
trading. By the end of the year, the stock was up more than 50%, putting
Buffalo Wild Wings in the top 10 among stocks that went public in all of
2003. Named a 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the
Midwest region and a 2002 North Dakota Entrepreneur of the Year, Ms.
Smith sharpened her business acumen with experience at KPMG Peat
Marwick, and 11 years at the national franchise company Dahlberg, Inc.
(now Miracle-Ear, Inc.), where she ended her tenure as CFO. A Certified
Public Accountant, she was hired in 1994 by Buffalo Wild Wings’
investors to establish the company’s accounting and finance departments.
Named President and CEO in 1996, Ms. Smith went on to establish all of
Buffalo Wild Wings’ functional areas ‘ including human resources,
marketing and information systems. Ms. Smith is a graduate of the
University of North Dakota with an Accounting degree. She is a member of
the National Restaurant Association Board of Directors, a Trustee of
Buena Vista University and a member and Treasurer of the Minnesota Young
Presidents Organization.