HomeConferencePresenters 2023 Presenters Hosts OJ Lima President Taste Select Repeat Tara Nurin Freelance Journalist Broadcast Professional and Author CBX Keynote Mary Guiver Principal Global Category Merchant Whole Foods Market Inc. Jackie Summers Creator Sorel Liqueur Women in Craft Keynote Lori Ajax Executive Director California Craft Brewers Association Presenters Gustavo Aguirre Vice President, Incubation Sprout Beverages Lori Ajax Executive Director California Craft Brewers Association Celeste Beatty Brewer and Founder Harlem Brewing Company Day Bracey Founder Barrel & Flow Fest Brook Bristow Attorney at Lager Bristow Beverage Law, LLC Andrew Coplon Founder Secret Hopper Founder Craft Beer Professionals Hannah Crum President Kombucha Brewers International John Davenport, PhD, MBA Co-Founder and Head-Distiller Three Crosses Distilling Company Samara B. Davis CEO/Executive Director Black Bourbon Society / Society Marketing Group Executive Director Diversity Distilled Hannah Ferguson CEO & Owner D.O.P.E Cider House & Winery Mary Guiver Principal Global Category Merchant Whole Foods Market Inc. Greg Heller-LaBelle Co-Founder Colony Meadery Brian Horne Vice-President 3 Daughters Brewing Lauren Hughes Head Brewer Necromancer Brewing Jon Hyman Co-Leader of the Craft Beer Practice Group Wickens, Herzer, Panza Aaron Keller Founding Partner and Managing Principal Capsule Brian Krueger VP Business Development & Portfolio Strategy Bump Williams Consulting Adam Lambert Founder Craft-Union Justin LeVaughn Head Brewer Void Sake Co OJ Lima President Taste Select Repeat Laura Lodge Co-Founder Start A Brewery, LLC Elise Miranda Director of Marketing Wigle Whiskey Nicola Nice, PhD Founder Pomp & Whimsy Tara Nurin Freelance Journalist Broadcast Professional and Author Jeff O’Brien Attorney/Partner Chestnut Cambronne PA Robert “R.J.” O’Hara President Flaherty & O’Hara, p.c. Paul Pisano Senior Vice President, Industry Affairs and General Counsel National Beer Wholesalers Association James Restivo Senior Vice President - BevAL NielsenIQ Brian Rosen President BevStrat Chairman Growth Beverage Ben Salisbury Founder Salisbury Creative Group Megan Seastedt Owner Abstract Brewing Company Marisa Sergi-Schumann Co-Owner / Chief Executive Officer L’uva Bella Winery Aadam Soorma Head of Marketing and Guest Experience Trace Brewing Michael Varda Founder Craft Beer Advisory Services Sherron Washington Founder and CEO The P3 Solution Beth Wilson-Parentice CEO/Founder WoW Beverage LLC Entrepreneur | Author | Speaker Beth Wilson-Parentice Rania Zayyat Founder and President Lift Collective Wine Director Bufalina Eric Zurita Co-founder and CEO Pa’lante Rum Co.
