STARTABREWERY - Key Persons
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- Consultant
- Executive Brewer & Midwest Sales Consultant
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- Founder
- Founder of Secret Hopper
Andrew Coplon is the Founder of Secret Hopper and Craft Beer Professionals. He is passionate about the growth of beer and helping businesses be more successful.
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- Eastern Field Marketing Manager
- Ingredients
Ben Weston is the founder and Head Honcho at Hoptown Handles, an American manufacturer of high quality, durable custom tap handles.
A craft beer veteran, "Dr." Bill is on the SDSU Business of Craft Beer Faculty/Advisory Board, is a Certified Cicerone, Co-Founder of Wild Barrel, a pairing expert, and master of zymurgical knowledge.
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- Sales & Marketing Director
- SAles
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- Owner
- Co - Founder and Owner of Ruby Street Brewing
Brian Mollohan is co-founder and owner of Ruby Street Brewing. Since 2011, Ruby Street Brewing has been designing and building hand-crafted small batch and pilot brewing equipment.
Brook is a Charleston-based attorney who counsels food and beverage industry clients from small start-ups to national brands. He can brew a passable IPA.
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- Founder & Lead Analyst
- Founder and Lead Analyst at Grist Analytics
- Quality Assurance / Quality Control
Brynn is the founder and lead analyst at Grist Analytics where she helps breweries across the world turn production data into actionable information.
Candace L. Moon is a San Diego-based attorney who handles many different legal areas including alcoholic beverage law, contract review and trademark law.
Candace L. Moon is a San Diego-based attorney who has spent the last eleven years dedicating her law practice to the craft beer industry. She has worked with more than 450 craft breweries and craft breweries-in-planning nationwide, handling many different legal areas including alcoholic beverage law, contract review and trademark law. Candace is the co-author of Brew Law 101 - A Legal Guide to Opening a Brewery (CA version).
Carol founded Horse & Dragon Brewing Company in 2014 with her husband Tim. She has an enormous appreciation for the community of Fort Collins, the Horse & Dragon team, and the craft brewing community.
Job Titles:
- Equipment & Packaging
- Technical Director, Craft Beer
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- Co - Owner / Information Architect
Danny has been a part of the Colorado craft brewing community since 2011 with the start of his first brewery. His knowledge in computer science and data sciences is the driving force behind the technology Fermly runs on. Danny is also a Certified BJCP judge and an award winning brewer.
Job Titles:
- Owner
- Owner / Full - Service Brewery Consultant
With over 12 years of experience, Derek is the Owner/Operator of Plato Brewing and Consulting Inc. - a full-service brewery consulting firm specializing in start-up planning, expansion, and operations from concept to completion.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Partner
- Founding Partner at Marshall
Doug is a founding partner at Marshall | Viliesis. With his partner Peter Viliesis they created Business Value Protection Planning™, a planning system designed with the business owner in mind.
Emily Hutto is a Colorado-based beer journalist-turned-barley industry marketer. After years of freelance writing and authoring the book Colorado's Top Brewers, she founded Rad Craft in 2012 to serve the communications needs of maltsters, brewers, and distillers.
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- Education & Brewery Experience Manager
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- Sales Manager
- Equipment & Packaging
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- Brewing Operations Consultant
Ethan Tsai is a Ph.D. chemist that has worn multiple hats throughout an incredibly diverse career, including GM of brewing operations for Cigar City Brewing and director of the brewery for Tivoli Brewing Company.
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- Partner and M & a Intermediary
Fred Kaplan brokers buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, performs valuations, and advises on Exit Planning for clients who are food and beverage processors, distributors, retailers, breweries, distilleries, and restaurants.
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- Co - Leader of Our Craft Beer Practice Group
- Intellectual Property Attorney
Jason Cook is an accomplished 10+ year insurance professional holding a Master's degree in Insurance Management from Boston University and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and Associate in Risk Management designations.
Jason Gladfelter is a beer geek with a conflict management profession (or is it the other way around?) who developed Vombuds, a virtual ombudsman, to help small businesses with their internal dynamics.
Job Titles:
- Vice President - Craft Beverage Lending
With 58 years in brewing and beverage industry design and manufacturing, Jeff Gunn has seen & participated in pivotal processing developments, including Sankey keg systems, flash pasteurization, custom process equipment, and the HEBS mash filter brew house.
Co-founder of Tabernash Brewing Co. and the Colorado Brewers Guild, Jeff has been a partner/ director at Left Hand Brewing Co. and has held leadership roles in the beer industry for 30+ years.
With 28 years of experience with major packaged goods companies, Jeff is known for being able to simplify complex issues and provide insightful recommendations based on consumer insights, innovation, and brand management.
Jeff has over 30 years experience sourcing great talent in operations and technical positions for food and beverage manufacturing companies that will make a huge contribution to your company.
Jess founded SSQ Consultants to help breweries establish QA/QC programs, develop SOPs, and create safety programs. Jess is guided by her experiences as a CR&D biochemist and as a brewer.
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Development
Throughout his professional brewing career John Mallett has been recognized for his expertise and leadership in brewery technical education and training. He has managed all beer production for Bell's Brewery since 2001.
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- Brewmaster / Craft Beverage Consultant
Prior to founding Opensō, Jon Carpenter has been involved in every aspect of an operational brewery, including engineering & design, new product development & operations, staffing/training, and construction/installation/startup of equipment, systems, brands, and facilities.
Job Titles:
- Director of Brewing and Sensory Science
- Quality Control & Quality Assurance
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- Chairman of Our Employment & Labor Practice Group
- Co - Leader Craft Beer Practice Group
As Chair of our Employment & Labor Practice Group, Jon Hyman provides practical solutions to help craft breweries solve their workforce problems. With decades of experience advising employers of all shapes and sizes, Jon is well equipped to do the same for your brewery.
Author of Denver Beer: A History of Mile High Brewing, Jonathan has spent more than 25 years as a journalist, most recently as the managing editor of Westword. He covers Colorado's dynamic craft-beer industry.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Marketing & Public Relations
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- Founder
- Founder of CraftBreweryFinancialTraining.Com
Kary Shumway is the founder of CraftBreweryFinancialTraining.com and Kary'sFinancialTraining.com, online resources for beer industry professionals.
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- Co - Founder of Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival
- Owner / Author
The co-founder of the Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival, Laura Lodge has been engaged in the craft beer industry since 1997. She's the Owner of Customized Craft Beer Programs, designing events, resort retail programs, and educational programs based on craft beer, and is also the author of Distribution Insight for the Craft Brewer.
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- CSO
- Founding Partner
- Founding Partner and CSO of DraughtLab Sensory Software
Lindsay Barr is the Founding Partner and CSO of DraughtLab Sensory Software. Her work is globally recognized for empowering companies of all sizes to apply Sensory Science to inform everyday business decisions.
Beverage Business Builders, established in 2015, offers financial and operational services for craft breweries & distilleries. President Mary Brettmann assists with everything from accounting software implementation, to long-range strategic planning.
Growing up in a family of woodworkers and craftsmen, Matt started River Drive Cooperage in 2008. Focused on oak barrels and wood aging, River Drive seeks to improve and revitalize the nearly lost art of coopering.
Job Titles:
- Insurance
- Risk & Insurance Consultant
As an Owner at Ska Brewing Co, Matt developed products to help ease beer production challenges. His small footprint can depalletizer was the inspiration for Ska Fabricating, which has now helped beverage producers in 27 countries.
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Founder of McLaughlin
Matthew McLaughlin is the founder of McLaughlin, PC, a boutique commercial law firm specializing in the beverage industry with more than 30 years combined experienced representing breweries, distilleries, and wineries.
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- Multimedia Graphic Artist
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- President
- President / CGO
Nancy Trigg is the President and CGO of Arryved. Arryved provides Point of Sale and Loyalty software to taprooms and brewpubs across the country. Addressing business challenges and finding solutions to create excellent taproom experiences for guests.
Neil Witte is a Master Cicerone and 24-year beer business veteran. He owns TapStar, which certifies draft beer quality at bars, restaurants, and brewery taprooms.
Job Titles:
- Employment Attorney
- Employment Law Attorney
Nicole Stenoish is an employment law attorney who specializes in providing practical legal advice to breweries on all aspects of employment and HR-related issues. She also has extensive experience defending businesses in a variety of employment litigation matters.
With both CPA and CVA credentials, Owen provides business valuation, litigation support, and financial due diligence services across a variety of industries, with a specialty focus on breweries and distilleries.
Job Titles:
- Director Emeritus
- Founder
- Founder and Director Emeritus of the Cicerone® Certification Program
Founder and director emeritus of the Cicerone® Certification Program, Ray is a veteran beer writer and educator who has traveled the world promoting quality beer service.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Owner / Operator
Do Better. Be Better. drives the award-winning diversity educator and consultant Ren Navarro as she educates, enlightens, and engages to help alcohol producers live up to the ideals and sense of community for which they strive.
Scott Kerkmans is a professor in the business of beer/beer industry and has run the Brewery Operations program at MSU Denver for over five years.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- CEO of Ah so Insights
Scott Rosenbaum is CEO of Ah So Insights, a wine and spirit industry newsletter and consultancy. Scott was formerly the vice president of T. Edward Wines & Spirits, a New York-based importer and distributor.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Creative Director
- Co - Founder and Creative Director of SeaThirst Creative
Taylor Seidler is co-founder and creative director of SeaThirst Creative. As an award-winning designer, she specializes in creative and branding for breweries & beverage companies, and has spent the last 10 years working in and around the brewing industry.
Job Titles:
- Equipment
- Founder / Head Brewer
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- Founder / Farmer
- Ingredients
Tom has opened 7 breweries of his own & helped open over 100 more with his Colorado Boy Brewery Immersion Course. His 1995 video, Frankenbrew, has become a cult classic in the brewing world. He has written three brewing books. Tom lives, brews and writes in his mountain town of Ridgway, CO.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Founder of PorchDrinking.Com
- Marketing & Public Relations
Tristan Chan is the Founder of PorchDrinking.com, a national beer publication, as well as The Porch Collective, a Marketing and PR firm focused on serving the hospitality industry.
A Founding Member of the North American Craft Maltster's Guild, Twila founded Grouse Malt House
Job Titles:
- Health & Accident Insurance Agent
Insurance Agent licensed to sell insurance through New York Life Insurance Company, specializing in custom-tailored solutions including insurance protection, retirement planning, college funding, and small business employee benefits planning and voluntary insurance opportunities.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Managing Director
- Founder and Managing Director of the AR Group
Victoria Aguilar is the Founder and Managing Director of The AR Group, LLC - a law and HR consulting firm in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Victoria assists clients with effectively managing human capital.
William has established a solid reputation for designing production beverage facilities with HRVST, a process engineering/ start-up consulting firm, and CLTVT, a General Contracting firm; both companies he co-founded and operates.