2014

Angela Wang / Regional Vice President, AT&T

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Angela Wang / Regional Vice President, AT&T
Angela Wang is a Regional Vice President at AT&T for the Northern California-Greater Central Valley and the state of Nevada supporting the Corporate Business Solutions market space. Her 15 years of experience with AT&T focuses on her passion to provide customers with the best experience through technologically driven applications and solutions to enhance business efficiencies. As a graduate of UC Irvine, she holds a bachelor’s degree in the Social Sciences specializing in Psychology.

Erwin Gut / Firestone Walker Brewing

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Erwin Gut / Firestone Walker Brewing
Erwin’s automation experience started in Switzerland while working as a software engineer for a Ticket Vending Machine Manufacturer. The curiosity about Silicon Valley was tremendous and he moved to Sunnyvale in 1988. There he worked in Automation till 1996 when Erwin started his own firm – Redwood Software Technology, specializing in MES software with integration toward ERP systems. His clients were all over the world, and he often averaged 100,000 air miles per year. Time with his family was limited and his 3 boys always assumed that he was actually a spy.

Jeffrey Meisel / President & Founder, Merchants of Beverage

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Jeffrey Meisel / President & Founder, Merchants of Beverage
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Jeffrey Meisel / President & Founder, Merchants of Beverage
Jeffrey is founder of Merchants of Beverage, a luxury online marketplace for world-class wine and spirits. He began his career in tech with WiredKitchen.com, an innovative b2b marketplace connecting chefs with food suppliers. He went on to Domaine Select as a boutique wine & spirits importer. Meisel was most recently Wine Director at Gilt Groupe.

Peter Triolo / Director of Food and Beverage, The Culinary Institute of America

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Peter Triolo / Director of Food and Beverage, The Culinary Institute of America
Peter started for a mom and pop's place in Modesto, CA at the age of 17, where he was part of the construction and opening and learned in's and out's of the restaurant business. At the age of 21 Peter opened his own small bistro in Modesto while continuing to be the General Manager of the restaurant. At the age of 25, he decided to part and go to culinary school, which allowed him to work in London where he started with the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. He worked at four different properties(London, Hualalai on the big island of Hawaii, San Francisco, and Miami).

Sarah Lockyer / Editor in Chief, Nation’s Restaurant News

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Sarah Lockyer / Editor in Chief, Nation’s Restaurant News
Sarah Lockyer is Editor-in-Chief of Nation’s Restaurant News, the foodservice industry’s most influential media brand. Ms. Lockyer leads the editorial team and content development for NRN’s bi-weekly magazine and portfolio of digital products, including the most-trafficked website in B2B foodservice, NRN.com, and a portfolio of e-newsletters, led by flagship NRN a.m.

Craig Camp / Managing Partner, Cornerstone Cellars

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Craig Camp / Managing Partner, Cornerstone Cellars
Craig Camp is a veteran fine wine professional with more than three decades of experience in every facet of the industry including importing, exporting, distribution, marketing, sales and production.

Brian Kelleher / Director of Commercial Sales, Pahlmeyer Winery

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Brian Kelleher / Director of Commercial Sales, Pahlmeyer Winery
Kelleher is a veteran wine sales strategist who previously served as Pahlmeyer’s western divisional sales manager. In his new role, Kelleher will be responsible for all wholesale sales channels in the U.S and internationally.

Seth Bromberger / Principal, NCI Security

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Seth Bromberger / Principal, NCI Security
Seth Bromberger has been involved in network and systems security for over nineteen years. His work history spans multiple industries and sectors, including government, finance, and energy. He is Principal at NCI Security, a consulting firm dedicated to the protection of domestic and international critical infrastructure. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President of Information Sharing and Government Outreach at Energy Sector Security Consortium, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization he helped co-found in 2008.

Jeff Stai / El Jefe, Twisted Oak Winery

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Jeff Stai / El Jefe, Twisted Oak Winery
Jeff “El Jefe” was born a poor geek child many (many) years ago. He was raised on classic science fiction, excelled at math and science, and built a successful engineering career. This naturally prepared him for a career in the wine business. Well, not really, a love of wine started the chain of events that led to starting Twisted Oak Winery in 2001. And the geek background has definitely helped with leveraging new technologies to grow the winery business. (However, none of this explains the rubber chickens…)
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