If you watched the Rockstar Open or any of the Red Bull Heavy Medals this past season, this man needs no introduction. And if you tune into Zeb Powell’s Youtube or social, you might feel like you already know him. Alex Caccamo has been around snowboarding for the better part of the last two decades, and his name is popping up more and more every season. The 30-year-old MC’s some of the biggest events in our sport, puts together snowboarding events all over the country with his roommate, and works with brands from Red Bull to Burton and beyond. An East Coast holdout until this year, we caught up with this rising personality for our latest Back of House. Learn a bit more about where Caccamo came from, his career, and his plans for the future below! 

How’s living in Denver?
Dude, it’s so interesting. I don’t know if it’s like I’m just so used to East Coast city life, but it’s definitely different. The people are a lot different. Plus, growing up it only took me 20 minutes to go snowboarding. Out here it’s like a 45 to an hour drive to the hill without traffic. Haha, that’s not fun. I could have moved to Philadelphia and had the same commute to ride. 

You are roommates with Zeb now?
Yeah, we moved here a few months ago, but honestly, we are never home. We are either on a trip together or separate, but we have probably had 20 days or less in our new spot so far. 

How’d you get into snowboarding?
I went skiing twice when I was a child with my dad and his friends… that was the first time I saw snowboarding. But we never went skiing again for a good five years. I will never forget it. I saw this one dude do a backside carve. I’ll never forget it. He had these green snowboard boots. He did a backslash and I saw that and I was like I want to do that and it stuck with me forever. All I did was beg to go snowboarding after that and after a bit, I got to!

Where are you from?
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. My home hill is Blue Mountain. If you know the right way to go, you can get there in 25 minutes from the house. And then when I got older it was Big Boulder. 

So when did you actually start riding regularly?
I started riding in middle school, so I think I was like 12 or 13, I wanna say.

Did you ever have aspirations of going pro or were you just kind of ripping around for something to do?
I did want to go pro. Like when I was younger, I was like, oh, that’d be sick to be able to do this for the rest of my life. It is one of the only things I felt like I was actually good at so it made sense. But once I started realizing what it took to go pro and living in Pennsylvania where there’s not much snow… that kind of set in. Hahaha the price of those street clips were a bit high driving to Connecticut or Vermont or wherever to go to find the snow.

Did you ever compete?
Only local stuff. I never did the contest circuit thing. Just all the rail jams. I worked park crew and just really enjoyed riding and being around the scene out there. 

What was your favorite rail jam?
Ooo, hard one. Probably the Burton Qualifiers though. Those were so sick.

And Burton was your first sponsor?
Yeah, all thanks to Matty B! He hooked me up when I was 21, I wanna say. I was sending Bistro videos every year for like four or five years. He was running the Burton Mid-Atlantic region. Just to get some boards. And then eventually, you know, he put me on the program.

What did that program look like?
I would just get a bunch of flow gear, bunch of boards, and they would pay for any contest I wanted to go into… and then Bistro would basically just take me around to all the demos and ride all the different boards with him and take photos and film. It wasn’t really a crazy structured program but that’s how I got in with Burton. It was all Bistro.

Where did it go from there? Or what was your next step?
I guess I just kept riding and then I ended up working at the Burton Demo Center at Mt. Hood. I did that for like two years and then I started working in-house at Burton as an event coordinator.

So you moved to Vermont?
Yeah, I only lived in Vermont for like nine months because then COVID hit. And there was basically no events, so I was like, all right. I’m out. I’m gonna try the snowboarding thing again and like really do it. I started riding a shit ton again, and that’s when some of the Red Bull stuff with Slide In Tour happened. 

But you weren’t announcing at that point yet, right? Is that when you also started working with Zeb on that first Slide In tour?
I did a few announcing gigs with Burton for the qualifier series and stuff like that. But I was filming some street clips and working at Blue again when I got invited by the Red Bull Philadelphia crew to come out for a stop of the Slide In Tour. It was only supposed to be the one stop, but my friend Tweek Tune (grammy nominated music producer) put me as his plus one for the second stop. I quit my job at the park crew to go and it kind of just went from there. Zeb and Becky Kaleo, who ran it then, asked if I wanted to join on for the rest of the tour and it was insane. I had met Zeb before when I was working at the Burton Demo Center, but those Slide In Tours is where we all thoroughly became friends. 

So how would you describe your job now?
My job now would be like a full-time MC, event host, announcer. And then I also help Zeb and Peter Cirilli, and our crew with anything I can. It’s rare that there’s a trip that I’m not on. 

And now you guys are roommates. Does it feel like you’re always working?
Yes haha. It’s good work, but it’s definitely a 24-7 job for sure. That could be a phone call late at night, meetings, just a chat in our apartment. But we’ve kind of learned when to put like, we’ll call it the Planet Zebulon hat… like we’ll put the Planet Zebulon hat on and talk business, then there are times where we take that off and just be homies. 

Is it hard to balance all of your hats?
Nah. It’s really fun. I mean it can get stressful, but like stressful in good ways, you know? The biggest thing is always just making sure that everyone is safe and happy. 

What’s your favorite event you’ve ever gotten to announce?
I would say the Pop Outs. Our little pop out events are so much fun, but I’d say that’s like the most fun in terms of just the event in general, being a voice at one of those. But as of recent, I think probably Heavy Metal. There are just so many people and its so cool. 

Have you ever done stuff outside of snowboarding on the mic?
I do some music stuff as well. A lot with Red Bull honestly, like DJ battles and all that. I’m just down to have a good time. 

Still filming clips?
Yeah, yeah. I actually got a grip of clips back in Bethlehem, so I’m back in the street. I’m going to Montreal to film for a week too, so yeah, I’m definitely trying to keep putting riding out as long as I can.

Where can we see you riding?
I was in Red Bull Rail Yard with Luke Winkelmann and Judd Henkes. And then a few other projects with different crews.  A lot of times I did it solo as well, or I mean with Peter Cirilli. I would just call him and he would pull up and film. The new clips I’m filming is gonna go in the Zoop Crew film with Liam Doyle, Wes Heffernan, and John Shanahan.

And obviously on Zeb’s YouTube page.
Yeah, yeah, that’s a crazy thing. I mean it’s turned around so fast in a year or so. The viewership of just my own riding and my own personality has been definitely on a fast trajectory upward. 

Have you ever been recognized in public?
Haha yeah. Right after the Marshawn Lynch video came out. A dude came up at the airport with his whole family. I ended up eating with him and talking for bit. 

What would you say to somebody who’s trying to come up today in snowboarding?
Oh, I would say the sky is the limit. It’s really, really not as complex as it may seem. All you have to do is try to be a good person. And don’t fall into the snowboarding norms. You know, you could be different; you can try different things. There are many outlets within snowboarding.

Where do you see yourself in a few years?
My goal is to keep getting more into the announcing game, you know, I just want to be a voice for snowboarding. Getting more involved with foundations and keeping snowboarding in a healthy space. That’s really all I care about. I don’t really have like a crazy five-year goal to be like some crazy dope personality that’s recognized everywhere. I’d rather it be more as a voice for snowboarding and a face to build snowboarding in the right direction if that makes sense… I don’t know how I’m trying to say that. 

I think you said it. Is there anyone in snowboarding that you aspire to be like?
I take inspiration from a ton of people. In the announcing space, Todd and Selema. From a style space? MFM and like a bunch of older snowboarders, or current riders like Tommy Gesme. As a whole? I don’t know, I think everything just kind of happens organically. I’m just lucky to be doing this. 

Do you think you snowboard more now than you did back when you were growing up?
I would say this year, I’m snowboarding more than I ever have. But that is this year in particular. The past few years have been pretty tied up with just, you know, announcing and not being on board. But yeah, now it is as much as when I was park crew. It is so nice to feel like a snowboarder again!