Who’s News: DISCUS, MGP Ingredients, Brewers Association
DISCUS- Castle, Barger, Lang; MGP INGREDIENTS- Buttshaw; BREWERS ASSOCIATION- Watson, Pease [Read More]
Who’s News – November 19th
L’ECOLE NO 41 — Matthew Carroll was named National Sales Manager — Northeast. In his new role, he will be responsible for sales in 21 markets, including Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana and West Virginia. Carroll [Read More]
Who’s News – October 1st
CAP — Matthew Botting, General Counsel of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, was named the recipient of the Center for Alcohol Policy’s 2024 Leadership in Alcohol Regulation Award. He has served as General [Read More]
Who’s News – August 20th
BROWN-FORMAN — Diane Nguyen was named Chief People, Places, and Communications Officer and a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. She is responsible for creating and executing strategies to build the culture, people, processes [Read More]
Who’s News – June 18th
DISCUS — The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States Board of Directors elected Dan Leese, President and CEO of Hotaling & Co., as Chair. Leese succeeds Ugo Fiorenzo, Campari Managing Director, Business Unit Americas, [Read More]
Who’s News – May 21st
DONATOS — Tom Krouse has announced his retirement as Chief Executive Officer of the Columbus-based pizza chain, effective in October. Krouse joined the company in 2000 after 18 years at Wendy’s, initially overseeing franchise expansion [Read More]
Who’s News – February 20th
BROWN-FORMAN — Mike Carr will succeed Matt Hamel as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, effective May 1. Carr currently is Vice President, Associate General Counsel for Regional and Corporate Development. He has been [Read More]
Who’s News – December 5th
STRANAHAN’S COLORADO WHISKEY — Justin Aden was appointed the brand’s first Head Blender. He will oversee the process of blending, distillation and maturation of the distiller’s range of American single malt whiskies. He has nearly 14 [Read More]
Who’s News – July 18th
DISCUS — The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States recently honored industry leaders at a special awards dinner during its annual conference in Chicago. Award recipients included Lauren Paylor “LP” O’Brien, Beverage Writer, Entrepreneur [Read More]
Who’s News – June 6th
DISCUS — Amy Whited was named Vice President of State Public Policy for the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. She will be based in Austin, Texas, and oversee government relations activities in Texas, [Read More]
Who’s New – April 18th
SPIRITS UNITED — Inaugural members of the Spirits United Advocacy Team are Chrissy Beaudette, General Manager at Sassenach Spirits; Michael Bender, President of Wholesale at Ole Smoky Distillery; Elizabeth Conway, Director of Brand and External [Read More]
Who’s News – February 21st
WOODFORD RESERVE — Elizabeth McCall was named Master Distiller, succeeding Chris Morris, who will assume the role of Master Distiller Emeritus. McCall joined Brown-Forman, Woodford Reserve’s parent company, in 2009 as a member of the [Read More]
Who’s News – December 20th
BROWN-FORMAN — Mark Clouse and Elizabeth “Liz” Smith were elected to the Board of Directors. Clouse is President and Chief Executive Officer of Campbell Soup Co., while Smith is the former Chief Executive Officer of [Read More]
Who’s News – September 20th
REALLY GOOD BOXED WINE — The Cincinnati-based wine start-up appointed Amy Troutmiller as Chief Operating Officer. She has held executive roles in the on-premises, import and wholesale, and e-commerce tiers of the alcoholic beverage industry, [Read More]
Who’s News – July 19th
HEAVEN HILL — President Max L. Shapira has named his daughter, Kate Latts, and son-in-law, Allan Latts, as Co-Presidents effective Sept. 1. Shapira, who has been president since 1986, will assume the new role of [Read More]
Who’s New – April 5th
BROWN-FORMAN — Dan Muraski was appointed Chief Information Officer and Sailaja Kotra-Turner was named Chief Information Security Officer. Muraski has been at Brown-Forman for more than 12 years in a variety of IT roles, most [Read More]
Who’s News – February 2nd
BREWERS ASSOCIATION — New members of the Board of Directors are Tomme Arthur, Co-Founder, Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey, San Marcos, Calif.; Garrett Marrero, CEO/Co-Founder, Maui Brewing Co., Kihei, Hawaii; Holly Redding, Managing Member, [Read More]
Who’s News – November 2nd
MARCO’S PIZZA — The Toledo-based pizza chain has named John King as Senior Vice President of Operations. He is responsible for franchise operations and development initiatives for non-area representative areas and serves as a member of [Read More]
Who’s News – September 7th
RHONE RANGERS — The national organization presented its sixth Lifetime Achievement Award to Gary Eberle, Founder and Owner of Eberle Winery. The award recognizes significant contributions made by an individual to the American Rhone wine [Read More]
Who’s News – July 20th
WINE INSTITUTE — Suzanne Groth, President and CEO of Groth Vineyards & Winery in Oakville, Calif., was elected the association’s Board Chair for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Other officers elected were Rick Tigner of Jackson [Read More]
Who’s News – May 18th
WSWA — Chris Underwood, Board of Managers for RNDC-West, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America. D’USSE COGNAC — Elaine Hamilton was appointed to serve as [Read More]
Who’s News – March 2nd
STOLI — Harry Bigelow was named President, North America. He previously served as President, National Accounts at Diageo, Vice President-General Manager of Red Bull North America and President and CEO of Marley Beverage Co. Additionally, [Read More]
Who’s News – January 5th
DISCUS — Amanda Berger, Ph.D., joined the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States as Vice President of Science. Most recently Vice President of Research for Porter Novelli in Washington, D.C., she will advise DISCUS [Read More]
Who’s News: August 18th
DISCUS — Clarkson Hine, Beam Suntory Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, was elected Chair of the Distilled Spirits Council. He succeeds former Diageo North America President Deirdre Mahlan, who was Chair [Read More]
Who’s News – July 20th
BREWERS ASSOCIATION — Recipients of the association’s 2020 Industry Awards include Oscar Wong, founder of Highland Brewing Co. in Asheville, N.C., Brewers Association Recognition Award; Brendan McGivney, chief operations officer at Odell Brewing Co. in [Read More]