2015

Mike Ricci, Chief Marketing Officer, Digital Fusion

Mike is a highly accomplished senior digital marketing & business development executive with 25+ years of international experience in technology focused operations (B2B & B2C focused) ranging in size from $8/yr million SaaS businesses to $4.2/yr Billion global industry leaders.
 
• A well regarded mobile and social media architect who has guided some of the world’s largest brands forward in these emerging interactive marketing arenas.
• Extremely creative with plenty of experience in developing and managing innovative, award winning digital

Clay Wallin, VP Sales, Vistaar

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Clay Wallin
Clay Wallin is the Napa-based director of sales, beverage alcohol for Vistaar Technologies, Inc., a provider of price management solutions. In this role, Wallin will leverage his experience to help Santa Clara-based Vistaar further expand its position providing pricing systems to beverage alcohol customers. 
 
With a career spanning 20 years in entrepreneurial technology innovation, Clay has a unique perspective on the evolution of technology in the beverage alcohol industry.

Harpreet Walia, President & CEO, WaveStrong

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Harpreet Walia
Harpreet S. Walia is an accomplished entrepreneur, having founded a series of successful companies, including WaveStrong, Level7AS, and Motocol. Harpreet has a history of introducing visionary innovations to market that address the demand for securely enabling emerging technology trends. His considerable work in the security technology sector has made him a trusted advisor for many enterprise CIOs and CISOs.

Dr. Elizabeth Thach MW, Professor, Wine Business Management, Sonoma State

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Dr. Elizabeth Thach MW

Dr. Liz Thach, MW (pronounced “tosh”) is a management and wine business professor at Sonoma State University in the Wine Business Institute where she teaches in both the undergraduate and Wine MBA programs. Liz’s passion is wine, and she has visited most of the major wine regions of the world and more than 35 countries. In addition, she is an award winning author who has published over 100 articles and 6 wine textbooks, including Wine – A Global Business and Wine Marketing & Sales. A fifth generation Californian, Liz finished her Ph.D.

Rebecca Stamey-White, Partner, Hinman & Carmichael. LLC

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Rebecca Stamey-White

Rebecca's practice focuses on alcohol beverage licensing and compliance; state ABC administrative hearing defense; advertising, marketing and distribution advice and trade practice counseling for the wine, beer, spirits and hospitality industries.  She particularly enjoys counseling clients on all aspects of promotional and marketing compliance, including designing legal relationships between alcohol industry members and unlicensed third party service providers and setting up compliant promotional events and social media marketing campaigns.

Chris Spear, Vice President, Business Solutions

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Chris Spear

Mr. Spear manages the TradePulse product portfolio, works with Customers on custom solutions, and leads the creation of solutions that result from our Continuous Improvement processes. As the IT Manager for a growing national wine brand Chris led the development and implementation of leading edge solutions for a wine sales enterprise that considered its use of technology a competitive advantage. In addition, Chris was a partner in a wine industry software startup. He holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Washington with emphasis on Organizational Leadership. 

Josh Saunders, CEO, Uncork’d

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Josh Saunders

Joshua is an entrepreneur and expert on consumer product technologies and is the founder and CEO of Uncorkd, a company that provides beverage alcohol technology solutions for the on-premise market.  At Uncorkd, Joshua works with leading restaurateurs to improve their beverage programs by using solutions such as digital tablet menus and beverage analytics.  He has over 15 years of extensive experience with web and mobile technology including product development and digital marketing.  Prior to Uncorkd, he led business development for a mobile technology company used by million

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