Podcast | Getting the Stage Set for SEMA (with Tom Gattuso)

Tom Gattuso, SEMA vice president of events, previews the 2025 SEMA Show and offers an inside look at the planning process for the event.
Oct. 2, 2025

With the SEMA Show just over a month away, Tom Gattuso, SEMA's vice president of events, stops by the NOLN Podcast to set the scene in Las Vegas. Gattuso shares what's new at this year's SEMA Show, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the multi-year process needed to plan out a SEMA event. Lastly, Gattuso offers up some tips for how SEMA Show attendees can make the most of their time on site.

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Tom Valentino is the editor of National Oil and Lube News. A graduate of Ohio University, he has more than two decades of experience in newspapers, public relations and trade magazines, covering everything from high school sports to behavioral health care. Tom’s first vehicle was a 1990 Mazda 626, which he used to deliver pizzas in the summer after graduating high school. Today, he drives a 2019 Jeep Compass, which usually has a trunk full of his daughter’s sports gear. In his spare time, Tom is an avid Cleveland sports fan and a volunteer youth sports coach.

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