NEW LOCATION: Blue Note - 1030 Main St, Napa, CA 94559
8:00am - 2:00pm |
For those unable to attend in person, this program will be available via Livestream. Choose the Livestream Ticket option on the registration page.
Registration Begins at 7:30am with coffee and pastries. Lunch included in ticket price.
Moderated by DLynn Proctor, Director, Fantesca Estate & Winery, Sommelier
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DLYNN PROCTOR - Moderator DLynn Proctor has been a prominent figure in the beverage and hospitality industry for over 15 years. He joined Fantesca with extensive experience working with Michelin starred Chefs, retail and web sales, fine and rare wine brokerage, global education, and corporate sales, marketing, and strategy. Mr. Proctor is a passionate ambassador, instrumental in winery education programs, media relations and international communication. He often contributes to food and wine content and to TV shows and print magazines. In addition, he travels extensively to speak publicly and represent Fantesca to customers, consumers, journalists, and distributors in a variety of global forums. |
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TIM JOHNSON, PRESIDENT & CEO, CALIFORNIA RICE COMMISSION
As founding President & CEO of the California Rice Commission, Mr. Johnson leads one of the state’s most highly regarded agricultural organizations. The Sacramento-based commission represents all growers and handlers that comprise the state’s rice industry, which annually contributes more than $1.8 billion to California’s economy. Mr. Johnson is actively engaged in national farm policy and regulatory issues. His travels have taken him to the industry’s major export markets in Asia to develop effective promotion campaigns that introduce new consumers to California rice. Prior to heading the California Rice Commission, he gained more than a decade of food industry experience with companies including Frito-Lay, Producers Dairy and the California Rice Promotion Board. He holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA from San Jose State University. Tim and his wife Ann are also partners in a family vineyard. Their Sierra Foothills vines are known for producing award-winning Zinfandels. |
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MARGARETH HENRIQUEZ, PRESIDENT & CEO, KRUG
Margareth Henriquez has over 39 years of experience, of which 28 years have been spent as President and/or CEO of multi-national or global companies in Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina and France. Mrs. Henriquez is renowned for developing and implementing strategies to manage companies in difficult contexts and circumstances. Since 2009, she has been President and CEO of the House of Krug, in Reims, France. In January of 2018, Mrs. Henriquez was also appointed President of the MH Estates & Wines division and is responsible for the development of seven Domains around the world. |
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BONNIE HOLMAN, PROGRAM MANAGER, SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATIONS,
SCS GLOBAL SERVICES Bonnie Holman is the Program Manager of Sustainability Certifications with the Food and Agriculture Division at SCS Global Services. SCS is an international leader in third-party certification and standards development in environmental, sustainability, and food safety and quality performance claims. Through auditing, certification, testing, life cycle assessment, training, and strategic consulting services, SCS helps organizations affirm and communicate their sustainability success stories. |
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JEFFREY HOLLENDER, CO-FOUNDER & FORMER CEO, SEVENTH GENERATION &
CO-FOUNDER & CEO, HOLLENDER SUSTAINABLE BRANDS LLC Jeffrey Hollender is co-founder and former CEO of Seventh Generation, which he built into a leading natural product brand of household and personal care products from 1988 to 2010. Mr. Hollender is also the founder of Sustain Natural, which he launched in 2013. Sustain Natural is a consumer products company that develops and markets reproductive health and feminine care products. He is also Adjunct Professor of sustainability and social entrepreneurship at New York University and serves on the Morgan Stanley Sustainability Advisory Board. As an author, speaker and consultant, Mr. Hollender is a leading authority on corporate responsibility, sustainability, social equity, global health care, and population issues. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the American Sustainable Business Council, a coalition of 200,000 business leaders committed to corporate responsibility and also serves on the board of Greenpeace US and Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. He divides his time between Charlotte, VT, and New York City. |
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PAUL MABRAY, CEO, EMETRY.IO
Paul Mabray has been a powerful change agent in the wine industry for over twenty years. He began his career working in traditional three-tier sales and marketing with Napa Ale Works and later innovating direct-to-consumer sales and marketing models with Niebaum Coppola. Since then, he has been at the forefront of all major digital trends for the wine industry, working with WineShopper.com and Wine.com when they entered the wine-digital space. Mr. Mabray founded two companies that have significantly changed the US wine landscape for digital. First, by introducing winery e-commerce with Inertia Beverage Group that transformed into WineDirect.com, a pioneering winery e-commerce platform, and then again introducing social media and social customer relationship management with VinTank.com. He is considered the wine industry’s foremost futurist and thought leader, harnessing the power and potential of digital tools and methodologies to move the industry into the future. |
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ERIC KARPINSKI, THE HAPPINESS COACH, GOOD THINK, INC.
Eric Karpinski integrates 20 years of business experience into his talks about implementing and sustaining positive change within organizations. His former roles as executive, management consultant, venture capitalist and Wharton MBA provide him insights into the workings of both large and small companies. Mr. Karpinski also trained as a scientist at Brown University and spent his business career at the juncture of medical science and business, easily bridging both worlds and translating between them. This understanding of science and business allows him to efficiently implement findings from top neuroscience and positive psychology research to make positive change within a company. He weaves this knowledge into his talks, leaving his audiences with the drive to implement these simple and powerful tools to initiate positive change and maintain it over the long-term. |
For those unable to attend in person, this program will be available via Livestream. Choose the Livestream Ticket option on the registration page.