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Boston Beer Company CEO Dave Burwick will step down and retire from the company’s board of directors, effective April 1. Michael Spillane, a Nike executive and lead director on Boston Beer’s board of directors, will supplant him.
Amid a sea change of top positions within craft this year, leadership at Rhinegeist Brewery explored the transition at the top of the Cincinnati, Ohio-headquartered craft brewery at the 2023 Brewbound Live business conference in Marina del Rey, California.
We now know who will lead the next chapter of New Belgium Brewing. Chief marketing officer Shaun Belongie has been named the next CEO of New Belgium, effective immediately, taking the spot left vacant by Steve Fechheimer earlier this year.
Molson Coors chief commercial officer Michelle St. Jacques announced a series of leadership moves in an all employee email sent today, along with the creation of the Americas Commercial Accelerator, which will be focused on driving “capability building across all geographies and categories.”
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) U.S. chief marketing officer Benoit Garbe will resign at the end of the year, the company announced today. Garbe is departing to “embark on a new chapter in his career,” according to an A-B spokesperson.
Indeed Brewing Company has appointed Ryan Bandy, former director of experience, as the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based craft brewery’s new chief business officer.
The Beer Institute (BI) has hired Andrew Heritage as its new chief economist, filling the data head vacancy left by Danelle Kosmal.
Sapporo-Stone Brewing has tapped industry veteran Joel Pipman as VP of brewing operations for the company’s bicoastal facilities.
Nearly three months after announcing her departure from the Beer Institute (BI), former VP of research Danelle Kosmal will join 3 Tier Beverages as a consultant. Kosmal and her family are moving to Japan in December for a two- to three-year stay while her husband works with the Office of Naval Research Global in Tokyo…. Read more »
Cincinnati’s Rhinegeist Brewery has named Adam Bankovich as CEO and promoted several other leaders internally. Bankovich, who had served as interim CEO since late April, was promoted to CEO effective October 13.
Carrie Yunker opened Brewbound Live Winter 2022 with a discussion on leading the organization through the retirement of its legendary founder, Larry Bell, and the sale of the company to New Belgium Brewing’s parent company, Lion Little World Beverages. Her talk included wisdom gleaned from the experience of leading a 37-year-old craft beer institution through a period of immense change, preserving Bell’s unique identity, and unifying its culture with New Belgium, which shares its people-centric values.
Firestone Walker co-founder David Walker will share what it means to be a craft brewer now and reflect on the brewery’s quarter-century journey. Chief sales officer David Macon and chief marketing officer Dustin Hinz will later join the conversation to explain how they will execute the vision to take the company into the next 25 years.
Schilling Cider co-founder and CEO Colin Schilling shares how his company has worked and continues to build a strong company culture.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company chief commercial officer Joe Whitney will retire, effective January 5, 2024, according to a message shared by Ken Grossman late Friday.
Eight Brewing, the producer of Eight Elite Light Lager, has added another pro to its roster – this time, a beer veteran.
BrewDog USA has announced a reorganized sales team structure ahead of 2024. The U.S. branch of the Scotland-headquartered craft brewery will transition from a regional sales structure to a “more streamlined, divisional structure” with three divisions – Central, East and West – effective November 1, according to a press release.
Summit Brewing founder and CEO Mark Stutrud will retire from the Minnesota craft brewery in March after 37 years.
