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Owner The concept for Beaux Frères Vineyard and Winery is to grow very ripe, healthy, and intense fruit through low yields and non-irrigated vineyards and by allowing fermentation to capture the true reflection of the Beaux Frères Vineyard. In 1986, while on vacation, Michael Etzel discovered an 88-acre farm for sale located in the Northern Willamette Valley on Ribbon Ridge in Yamhill County, Ore. After some deliberation, Michael purchased the farm with his brother-in-law, Robert Parker Jr. Michael and his young family uprooted from Colorado and moved to the farm the following summer. He began his focused pursuit as a vineyard manager by planting only Pinot noir, transforming the old pig and dairy farm into his jewel. While planting his own vineyard, Michael worked for four harvests at Ponzi Winery. In 1990, Michael harvested his first crop and sold the grapes, except enough to make one barrel, to winemakers Ken Wright and Dick Ponzi. In 1991, a renovation of one of the barns led to the creation of Beaux Frères Winery, as well as the addition of a third partner, Robert Roy. With each new vintage, Michael’s efforts unveil a Pinot noir that is the purest expression of his vineyard. Author, Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson James Gabler is the author of three wine books; Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson is his third. Passions was the winner of the 1995 “Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year” award. In preparation for writing Passions, Jim spent eight years researching Jefferson’s interests in wine, food, and travel and retraced Jefferson’s footsteps throughout Europe and America. In 1993, he was invited to give the Jefferson and Wine Evening Conversation at Monticello as part of the Jefferson 250th Birthday Commemoration. In 1985, Jim wrote Wine Into Words: A History and Bibliography of Wine Books in the English Language. Two years later he authored a guide for novice wine drinkers, How To Be A Wine Expert, and a revised and expanded second edition was published in 1995. Jim has written wine articles for a variety of publications, taught courses on wine, given talks on Thomas Jefferson and his wines and travels, and appeared on a variety of television and radio shows. Jim is the wine columnist for “The Daily Record,” Baltimore, Md. He is a member of The Circle of Wine Writers and The International Wine and Food Society. He holds a B.A. in economics and a J.D. in law from Washington and Lee University. He lives with his wife and family just outside of Baltimore. Jim has given talks on “The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson” at many institutions and clubs throughout the United States. President and CEO John W. Gay is President and CEO of Southcorp Wines, The Americas, and Chairman of PWG Vintners USA Inc. Previously he was President of Rosemount Estates Inc., when Australia’s largest family-owned winery merged with Southcorp Limited. With Rosemount, he was instrumental in building the company to where it was one of the major players in the U.S. wine market. Born and educated in California, he began his career in the wine business working for a wine and spirits shop in San Francisco while attending college. After completing his degree and postgraduate work, he was appointed general manager of Marin Wine & Spirits, a prominent and very successful group of fine wine and spirits shops in Northern California. He finished his career there as Executive Vice President/COO. With a desire to move from retailing into winery management, Gay joined Sebastiani Vineyards as vice president and general manager during a critical transition period in the winery’s history. In the early 1980s, he established a consultancy firm that was involved in marketing and financial planning for Napa and Sonoma wineries and companies. During this period, he consulted with a company that was developing a plan to import and market Australian wines in America. In that capacity, he traveled to Australia regularly, tasted hundreds of Australian wines and visited many wineries and viticultural areas. He joined Rosemount Estate as President in 1986. In 1992, Wines & Vines identified him as one of the 50 most influential people in the wine business. As President and CEO of Southcorp Wines in The Americas, John Gay will build on his Rosemount Estates experiences and develop all aspects of the merged company’s wines throughout the region. He will continue to be a regular visitor to all the company’s operations in Australia. Executive Vice President Stephen P. Joyce is Executive Vice President, Owner and Franchise Services for Marriott International. Marriott International, the world’s leading lodging company exceeded $17 billion in sales in 1999. The company operates under the Marriott, Renaissance, Ritz-Carlton, Courtyard, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites, Residence Inn, TownePlace Suites, and Marriott Executive Residences lodging brands. Marriott’s owner/franchise services group supports owners and franchisees of over 1683 hotels in North America. Significant growth is anticipated over the next several years. Mr. Joyce is a 19-year veteran of Marriott. Most recently he led the full-service franchise group, overseeing franchising programs of Marriott’s full-service brands. Prior to that Mr. Joyce led the franchise group as controller of Marriott’s franchise division and helped lead the transition for Marriott’s lodging group to a market-based organization. Mr. Joyce also served as the director of Marriott Lodging Finance, overseeing the development of Marriott’s Quality Assurance Process, Pro Forma Development and Marriott’s Honored Guest Award Program, as well as many other Marriott lodging initiatives. Before joining Marriott Lodging in 1988 Mr. Joyce was a senior manager for Marriott’s Corporate Finance Group, Partnership and Syndication Group and has also served as a financial and operational consultant. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia. He serves as Director in the International Franchise Association and Interstate Management Company. President and CEO Patricia Kluge is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kluge Investments Ltd., a successful investment company, as well as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard. Both are located in Charlottesville, Va. Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard is poised to become one of the most influential, state-of-the-art winemaking facilities in the State of Virginia. Currently, Ms. Kluge sits on the Board of the Virginia Environmental Endowment (VEE), The Federal Law Enforcement Foundation, New York University, and The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. She is also a council member of the Dean's Council at Tisch School of the Arts. Within Virginia, Ms. Kluge founded the Virginia Festival of American Film at the University of Virginia and established the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center, the Francis Hooks Scholarship and after-school programs for under-privileged children. Through her foundation, The Patricia M. Kluge Foundation, Ms. Kluge supports many charities locally, regionally, and nationally. Previously, Ms. Kluge served on the National Public Radio Foundation, the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, and the Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was also a board member of the Paramount Theater and Cultural Center and the Sexual Assault Research Agency. Additionally, she was a trustee of the Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc. Ms. Kluge was also a founding member of the Catholic Instructional Television, the National Board of the American Foundation for Aids Research, The Asia Society, and a member of the United States Information Agency. English Department Chair
and Professor Paul Lukacs is a wine writer, educator, and adviser. He writes features, columns, and individual wine profiles for The Washington Times on a weekly basis. In this position since 1994, he has covered wines and winemaking from across the globe. In addition, he has written about wine on a freelance basis for many magazines, including Saveur, Wine and Spirits, Food Arts, and American Heritage. He has traveled to many of the world’s most important winegrowing regions, and evaluates literally thousands of wines every year. Lukacs also is the author of a book, American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine (Houghton Mifflin, 2000). A social history of wine in the United States, both its production and its appreciation, American Vintage won all three major 2000 wine “book of the year” awards—from Champagne Veuve Clicquot, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and the James Beard Foundation. It was favorably reviewed in most of the major American book reviews. Besides writing about wine, Lukacs has taught numerous wine appreciation and education classes. Since 1999 he has worked as a wine consultant for restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area, helping select wines for wine lists, pair wine with menu items, and train wait staff. Lukacs has served as a judge at numerous wine competitions, both in America and in Europe. In addition, he is one of the co-organizers and co-founders of the International Oyster Wine Competition, held each November in Washington. This is the only international wine competition in the world in which the wines are judged with food. He appears regularly on a television news program in Washington to offer wine recommendations and advice. Lukacs also serves as the chair of the English department at Loyola College in Maryland. His academic specialty is 19th century American literature, and he has published in leading academic journals in that field. He lives in Baltimore. Chairman
Emeritus Robert G. Mondavi, in his late 80s, remains the global emissary of American food and wine. His vision was to create wines in California that belong in the company of the great wines of the world. Having successfully achieved this goal, his wisdom as founder and Chairman Emeritus of Robert Mondavi now guides his sons and daughter in their leadership roles in taking the Robert Mondavi family of wines into the new millennium. To celebrate the pleasures of wine, food, and the arts, the Robert Mondavi Winery was built as an enduring landmark with a sense of California history as reflected in its mission-style architecture. Robert has long believed that great wines should be recognized internationally. In the 1970s, the Robert Mondavi Winery was among the first to export premium California wine. Robert Mondavi was among the first wineries to become a publicly traded company in 1993. The Robert Mondavi model has paved the way for the investment revolution now permeating the industry. Co-founder Vic Motto is a Wine Business Consultant, CPA, and founding Senior Partner with the firm of MOTTO KRYLA & FISHER LLP, Wine Business Advisors headquartered in Napa Valley, Calif. MKF provides management consulting, economic and market research and CPA services to the wine industry and is the only business consulting and CPA firm devoted exclusively to the wine industry. The firm serves hundreds of wineries and thousands of acres of vineyards in wine producing regions around the world. Vic Motto is actively involved as a wine business consultant to companies in the wine industry, serves as a Director or adviser to several wine industry trade groups, teaches, writes articles, and frequently speaks on wine industry issues. He is frequently quoted as a wine industry expert and economist in major media. He is the founder and managing partner of the Wine Business Center in Napa Valley. Motto specializes in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and industry research. His clients include many top wineries of the world, U.S. importers and distributors and several of the major international wine companies. Before founding MKF in 1982, Motto was an executive with Arthur Andersen & Co., specializing in the real estate industry, and was previously in the retail wine trade as a wine buyer. Wine Writer, Consultant, and Trade
Representative During his more than 30 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, which included assignments with both the United States Information Agency and the Agency for International Development, with overseas postings in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Costa Rica, Gordon Murchie has had experience in international diplomacy. He believes that “wine is an important part of that diplomacy. Wine is a universally accepted topic and beverage that fosters friendships, cooperation, and a healthy outlook on life.” Murchie received his B.A. in Political Science-International Relations from the University of Southern California and his M.A. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in International Public Diplomacy and Law. In 1989 he assumed Presidency of The Vinifera Wine Growers Association and has continued to serve as its President, conducting both Virginia state wine competitions and festivals. Murchie is a Supreme Knight of the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Vine, a member of the American Wine Society, a member of Women for WineSense, WineVision Forum, and has served as the Executive Director of the Licensed Beverage Information Council (LBIC). Murchie also serves as the wine consultant to George Washington’s Mount Vernon. From 1993 to 1995, he was selected to serve as the Executive Director of the National Wine Coalition, serving as spokesman for U.S. wine industry positions on all major administrative, legislative, and regulatory initiatives impacting on the U.S. wine industry, coordinating wine education briefings for staffs and members of the U.S. Congress, and conducting and participating in wine issue forums and symposiums nationwide. Since 1999, Murchie has also been appointed as the Executive Director of the Virginia Wineries Association. In 1998, he was selected as Man of the Year by the Virginia wine industry. Additionally, he currently works with members of the U.S. Congressional Wine Caucus and member of the Virginia State Legislature on matters of concern to the American wine industry and the wine industry of the Commonwealth of Virginia. President and CEO Christopher J. Nassetta is President and Chief Executive Officer for Host Marriott Corporation. Before this position he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the company. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the company. Before joining Host Marriott, Mr. Nassetta co-founded Bailey Capital Corporation in 1991, where he was responsible for the operations of the real estate investment and advisory firm. Before founding Bailey Capital Corporation, Mr. Nassetta spent seven years with The Oliver Carr Company, ultimately serving as Chief Development Officer. In this role, he was responsible for all development and related activities for one of the largest commercial real estate companies in the mid-Atlantic region. Before his role as Chief Development Officer, Mr. Nassetta served as Development Director, as well as Vice President and Regional Partner, where he was responsible for all suburban operations. Mr. Nassetta also served as a member of the four-person management committee responsible for overall management of the company. Currently, Mr. Nassetta serves on the Board of Trustees for Prime Group Realty Trust, on the Board of Directors for the National Kidney Foundation of the National Capital Area and as a member of the McIntire School of Commerce Advisory Board for the University of Virginia. Mr. Nassetta graduated from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce with a degree in Finance and studied international finance at the London School of Economics. CEO As CEO of JetBlue Airways, David Neeleman has launched his third successful aviation business and is realizing his desire to bring humanity back to air travel by offering passengers low fares, friendly service, and a high-quality product. David’s career in the airline industry began in 1984, when he co-founded a low-fare carrier called Morris Air with June Morris, the owner of Salt Lake City-based travel agency Morris Travel. As President of Morris Air, David implemented the industry’s first electronic ticketing system and pioneered a home reservationist system that is now the foundation of JetBlue’s unique call center: all calls to JetBlue’s reservation number are handled by reservationists working out of their homes. After the sale of Morris Air and a short period with Southwest Airlines, David took the electronic ticketing system that he had initiated at Morris Air and developed it into Open Skies, the world’s simplest airline reservation system. David sold Open Skies to Hewlett Packard in 1999. Also during this period, David acted as a consultant to WestJet Airlines, the successful Canadian low-fare start-up airline. In 1999, after the conclusion of his five-year non-compete agreement with Southwest Airlines, David decided the time was right to bring his successful airline formula – innovative, high quality service plus low fares equals a strong and loyal market – to one of the country’s largest aviation markets, New York City. This year, David was named one of the Top Ten Entrepreneurs of 2000 by BusinessWeek magazine, a Travel Industry Innovator by Time magazine, and one of the Most Influential Business Travel Executives by Business Travel News. Walker Professor in Growth Enterprises George A. Overstreet Jr. is Associate Dean for Research and Center Development and the Walker Professor in Growth Enterprises at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. He earned his B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and his M.A. and Ph.D. (1976) from the University of Alabama. In addition, Mr. Overstreet was a Huebner Post-Doctoral Fellow (1978) at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance. He has served as the Academic Director of the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA’s) Graduate School of Bank Management and has taught at the American Banker Association’s Stonier Graduate School of Bank Management, the Banking School of the South, Citicorp’s Management Associate Development Program, and the SRCUS Graduate School of Credit Union Management. Mr. Overstreet has served on the boards of several real estate-related firms. He was intimately involved in the negotiated sale of one of these--the RF&P, a real estate development firm--for $600 million. Its conversion to a private real estate investment trust, strategic acquisitions, and timely sale created over $250 million in value for the firm’s shareholders, the Virginia Retirement System. He currently serves on the boards of four University of Virginia-related startup firms. Stanford
Professor of Management Science and Engineering Robert I. Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization and an active researcher in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. He is Professor of Organizational Behavior (by courtesy) at the Stanford Business School, and a Fellow at IDEO Product Development and at Reactivity (a software firm). Sutton received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from The University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983. He has taught at The University of California’s (Berkeley) Haas Business School and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences during the 1986-87 and 1994-95 academic years. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly publications, and currently serves as Co-Editor of Research in Organizational Behavior. He has published over 75 articles and chapters in scholarly and applied publications. Sutton (and Jeffrey Pfeffer) wrote The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge Into Action, a book published by the Harvard Business School Press in 2000. Sutton just completed Weird Ideas that Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation, published by The Free Press in November 2001. Several major themes in this book are developed in two Harvard Business Review articles, "The Weird New Rules of Creativity,” published in September 2001, and “Building an Innovation Factory” (with Andrew Hargadon), published in May-June 2000. Chesapeake & Potomac
Professor of Commerce Peter A. Todd received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia and B.Commerce. in Finance from McGill University. Professor Todd specializes in the management of IT. He conducts research on the adoption and diffusion of IT, the impact of IT on decision making, the management of IT personnel, and human-computer interface design. Current research projects include studies of IT adoption and satisfaction, the marketing of the IT function, factors influencing the retention of IT workers, and the influence of decision aids on decision-making strategy. Professor Todd publishes articles in academic and professional journals, presents papers at professional meetings, and participates in executive education programs. Recent articles include "Solutions Driven Marketing: Providing a Link between Product Customization and Electronic Commerce," in Communications of the ACM; "Decision Aids and Compensatory Information Processing," in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; "Exploring the Impact of DSS, Cognitive Effort and Incentives on Strategy Selection," in Information Systems Research; "Strategies for Managing End User Computing on the Web," in Journal of End User Computing; and "The Impact of Information Technology on Decision-Making: A Cognitive Perspective," in Framing the Domains of IT Management Research: Glimpsing the Future through the Past. Professor Todd serves on the editorial boards for Information Systems Research and Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive. He is co-chair of the 2001 Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference on Information Systems. President and CEO Gregory A. Trojan, President and CEO of HOB Entertainment Inc., began his career in 1981 as a management consultant with Accenture. In 1990, after four years as a management consultant for Bain & Company, he became a key member of PepsiCo Inc.'s planning and development team before assuming the position of president and CEO of the 77-unit California Pizza Kitchen chain. After a successful two-year stint at CPK, Trojan, who holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Virginia and a MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business, joined HOB Entertainment Inc. in August 1996.Trojan is responsible for the overall vision and operation of HOB Entertainment Inc. and its divisions, which include House of Blues Clubs; House of Blues Concerts Inc. (20 arena and amphitheatre venues across North America); and HOB Media Properties, which includes HOB Productions, HOB Music Company, and HOB Digital (www.hob.com), a leading content provider for various media including the Internet, broadband, HDTV, satellite, and DVD. Managing Partner of JPMorgan Partners Jeffrey C. Walker is currently the Managing Partner of JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), JPMorgan Chase & Co’s $24 billion global private equity group and member of the Executive Committee and Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Before co-founding JPMorgan Partners in 1984, Mr. Walker worked in the Investment Banking and Finance Divisions of Chemical Bank and the Audit and Consulting Divisions of Arthur Young & Co. Mr. Walker is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant. He graduated with a BS from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He currently serves on the advisory boards of Solera Capital and Weston Presidio Capital, is on the Investment Committee of the JPMorgan Partners Asia, JPMorgan Private Equity Partners Select, and JPMorgan Horizon Funds and is on the Board of JPMorgan Chase Foundation. He received the 1998 Award for Excellence in Growth Capital Investing from the University of Michigan Business School. JPMorgan Partners was named to the Private Equity Hall of Fame (sponsored by the Private Equity Analyst) in 1999.
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