HUNTERDON | Distributor of Craft Beer, Wine and Spirits

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	DAVE MASTERSON dave@hunterdonbrewing.com Co Owner/Sales Manager/Attitude Adjustment Consultant Start Date: Co-founded the company in 1997 Experience: A lifetime in the Restaurant biz. Beginning, of course, as a hydro ceramic technician. Also spent two plus years as an assistant brewer for Independence Brewing Co. This was the moment in time when I realized there weren’t many viable wholesale options for all the great American brewers. Interests: Music. It is true that I play in a Velvet Underground cover band. Sports. It is also true that I suffer through every summer with the Phillies. I’ve also been known to read a book or two. Previous life: Vacuum cleaner salesman, carpenters helper, collegiate soccer coach. Education: Two years at Hartwick College, two years and a summer at SUNY Oneonta. English degree. Miscellaneous data: Spent summers on lake Winnipesauke, attended Live Aid, live just outside Philly, try to drink a different beer every night.
	RAFAL LOBODA rafal@hunterdonselections.com Start date:November 2003 Wine and Spirits Portfolio Manager Experience: 10 years managing a wine shop in New Jersey. Wine courses and wine classes at Windows of the World with Kevin Zraly. Organizing wine events for numerous organizations. During that period I swallowed the “wine bug” and that was it for me. Wine became my passion, but I also always have been a beer geek on the inside. Interests: Cycling, cycling, and did I mention … cycling. Education: Associates degree in Business Administration and and Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. Miscellaneous: Partied all out at Woodstock’s 25th anniversary in NY. Enjoy occasional fly fishing trips, and I am always on a search for a great glass of wine and an esoteric pint of beer that will go well with my cooking. CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR AWARD-WINNING PORTFOLIO
	JEFF RANCAN jeff@hunterdonbrewing.com Position: On-Premise Sales Manager Start Date: October 2005 Experience: worked for a craft brewery doing everything from scrubbing kegs and bottling to sales and delivery. Interests: running, hiking, carrots, alfalfa sprouts. Previous Life: left the corporate world after 8 years in an office. Education: Business degree from Rider University. Miscellaneous: haven't had a hamburger since 1993.

	SCOTT DUNCAN "Forever Setting the Bar for All Future Salespeople" scott@hunterdonbrewing.com Warehouse Manager Start Date: 4/1/2001 Experience: 5 years retail liquor; 5 years sales (Hunterdon) Interests: Fishing, woodworking, sports Previous life: 4 years US ARMY (Panama), Draftsman (Sabre Yachts), Graphic Designer (Oxford Aviation) Aircraft Refurbishing Education: NHHS Class of 84; NC State (Civil Engineering) Favorite Movie: The Wedding Singer Favorite Song: Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) Miscellaneous data: Proud father of 4 great kids: Paige, Morgan, Cameron, Aidan and grateful husband of Annemarie
	RAYMOND J BUROW ray@hunterdonbrewing.com South Jersey Sales Start - March '03 Experience - I have been in the business since 97 in all capacities. Meet Big Dave while working at Fred's and Jack's at the Jersey Shore. Moved to the wholesale end in 03 and still going. Education - Did a tour of colleges that change there names in the North East including : McDaniel (Western Maryland College), Rowan (Glassboro State), and The College of NJ (Trenton State). Majored in Psychology and Criminal Justice and chose to help fight crime and sooth mental anguishes at Hunterdon. Previous Life - I was cool. Not so much anymore. Likes - Good times with family, friends, and good beverages. Dislikes - mean people and being sad In the Future - I hope to continue LIVING THE DREAM with my beautiful wife Molly and my 3 kids Aidan, Finn, and ?.
	NANCY STICKLE nancy@hunterdonbrewing.com Start Date: May 2007 Experience: Does four years of drinking microbrews ion college and planning killer Oktoberfest parties count? Interests: food and wine-related travel, yoga, photography, cooking, eating and drinking, breakdancing and worshipping Leonardo di Caprio and Zach Braff Previous Life: Private Chef for a family in NJ; Assistant Manager in cheese and specialty foods at Whole Foods Market; Wine Sales at a boutique wine shop in Montclair Education: Culinary Degree from Cook Street School of Fine Cooking in Denver; B.A. in Psychology from University of Colorado at Boulder; Advanced Level Wine Certificate from International Wine Center in NYC Misc Data: Will challenge anyone to a Bloody Mary making contest. Only the brave need apply.
	Name: STEVE GATES aka "STEVIE CASINO" steve@hunterdonbrewing.com Position: South Jersey Restaurant Sales Start Date: November 2006 Experience: Recognized Judge, Beer Judge Certification Program. 10+ years in the restaurant business. I did it all; busboy, waiter, bartender (I like to call it intoxication delivery systems engineering), even a stint as a manager. Along the way I had the good fortune of tending bar at a few restaurants that served some of the best beers in the world, and a brave new world opened up for me. Interests: A little of everything. . . I love music; I play guitar in a band (Los Guajalotes Negros y Salvajes) with 2 of my best friends. I really enjoy a good pair of slacks. I learned to blow glass years ago from a friend, worked in his studio for a few years, and eventually operated my own studio. Alas, the life of a starving artist wasn’t for me, but I still manage to play with melted glass every once in a while. I like to read good books but rarely find the time. Lastly, I am a total foodie! I love to cook and eat good food (as long as there is good beer to wash it down!). Previous Life: bartending glassblower. Miscellaneous data: I speak and read Spanish fluently; my Spanish speaking voice sounds just like the guy from the news broadcast on Univision 41. Now if someone from South America would just brew some really good beer. . .
	JAMES VILADE james@hunterdonbrewing.com Position: North East NJ Sales Experience- Many years on and off through high school and college and as a "beer guy" at my hometown liquor store. Interests- High fives (they're back), Macrame, Break Dance Fighting, and Bocce Ball. Previous Life- Realtor, Rental Car Agent (I dont suggest either to anyone), Starving (but happy) musician. Education- BA Communications, Wesley College, Dover DE. Handsome Boy Modeling School- Graduate Favorite Movie- Right now its "Beerfest"...but it changes often. Misc Data- Lead singer and rhythm guitarist for "The Meathooks". Once ate 9 Doughnuts in under 4 minutes as a bet. I won. All Delaware Beer Pong Team 2000-2003.

	JOHN MATURA john@hunterdonbrewing.com Position: Enthustiastiker Of Beer, Northeastern, NJ Start Date: Sometime in '05 Experience: Came into the world thinking, "Well that was pretty weird!". As the doctors wiped me off, I realized, this is exactly where I needed to be. So I got a job in a liquor store. Beer guy. Cashier. Key person. Management. Now beer and wine aficionado. Interests: Music (electronic-jazz-fusion) is the only thing in this world that truly makes sense. Eventually the rest will realize. Beautifulmess is the band. Beer. Toured with PHISH twice. Thank you. Education: Award winning Mathematics degree from Centenary College. Graduated Summa Cum Laude thank you very much. Associates in Science. Learned a lot about beer and wine during this time as well. Previous Life: I'm guessing that I was the "APPLE" that Eve took the bite from. Favorite Movie: Kids, Hated, Bitter Sweet Motel. Favorite Quote: "Control for smilers can't be bought", "Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" Misc. Data: I used to believe in UFO's. Then I didn't. Then I did again. Repeat. I hope Artie Lange doesn't die soon. What happened to all the towels? I'm going to have to explain this to the desk clerk.
	SEAN DWYER sean@hunterdonbrewing.com Position: Northeast NJ Sales Start Date: September 2006 Experience: 4 years of vigorous market research at St. Bonaventure University. Two previous years in retail as well. Education: BA in History with a minor in Philosophy from the aforementioned. Spent a summer studying Shakespeare, French Napoleonic History, and pub culture at Somerville College in Oxford, England. Interests: Sports; Hockey and Baseball mostly; Sabres and Mets to be exact. For someone who is terrible at math or any kind of numbers I am obsessed with baseball statistics, sabermetrics, and fantasy baseball. Previous Life: In all likelihood I was the guy who invented the hammock but forgot to patent it so my arch enemy who worked next door stole the idea then ran off with my wife. Miscellaneous: Considered the “Bob Wickman of Wiffle,” and as one of the premier wiffle ball relief pitchers with a devastating curveball complemented with a deceiving side arm fastball. Play guitar, drums, bass, piano, and the recorder. . .at the same time. Most Memorable Beer: My first American dopplebock; Troegs Troegenator. It was at that moment I realized the best beers in the world are brewed right here in United States.
	Name: JOHN HOYOS jhoyos@hunterdonbrewing.com Position: Off-Premise Sales, Jersey Shore North Start Date: January 1, 2007 Experience: Three years as the "Beer Shaman" at a store in lovely and scenic Teaneck, NJ, right down the block from Andy's Corner. Gained some notoriety for recommending beers to go with particular meals. Interests: The places Cheerios can't go. Organized chaos, big shrimp, military intelligence and other oxymorons. The New York Yankees, the Washington Nationals and any well-played game of sport. The Great Podkovan Experiment. Previous life: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rev. William Emerson, The Anonymous Pilgrim of Brussels Education: Four years at Glassboro State/Rowan College/Rowan University for a BA in Communications. Three years at Seton Hall for an MBA: Sport Management Favorite Movie: Blazing Saddles, Blues Brothers Miscellaneous data: Has an immediate relative in the NBA record books.

	DUSTIN NOEL dustin@hunterdonbrewing.com Start date - 2/2008 Position - Restaurant Sales - Northern NJ Education - Two wonderful years at the University of Vermont and two slightly wonderful years at CCM... focuses in history, accounting, hospitality management and computer science. Experience - Worked at a local brewpub as a dishwasher all the way to bartender for about seven years... Instead of asking people to buy me certain 'yellow fizzy beers' i was asking for growlers of Porter. Go figure. From there i bartended at a wonderful beer bar in NW Central NJ until my dream job found me. Interests - Dining out and drinking cocktails at my favorite places in NYC. Various types of music from Brand New to Phish to At the Drive In. I love to fish and hike. I am a huge New York Yankees fan.. (bleacher creatures unite!) I can usually be found with either a beer, a guitar, a book or xbox controller in my hand... sometimes two of four.. I also love to cook and have a huge passion for mixology. Favorite TV shows - The Office, Lost, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm Misc Data - attend about 15 - 20 concerts a year. I once survived a car accident... i was thrown out the back windshield. I feel invincible sometimes. Previous life - Jack Kerouac.
	ANNA TRUEMAN Wine Consultant; North Jersey anna@hunterdonselections.com START DATE: June 30, 2008 EXPERIENCE: 9 years of selling wine, first as a tasting room manager at a local NJ winery, then waiting tables (fine dining), then worked my way up in the retail world from cashier to General Manager PREVIOUS LIFE: starving artist... even went to art school. So I'm also a graphic designer/printmaker/bookbinder INTERESTS: trying new wines, learning Italian, cooking. I still want to take a knife-skills class at CIA, so I can chop veggies like the chefs on TV LIKES: squeezing my baby girl, fixing up our old stone house, tending my herb garden, the smell of mimosas in the morning, horses (I don't care if that's cliche), reading (but don't have time), flea markets, fresh and stinky goat cheese DISLIKES: The attitude that wine is a big competition. People have been enjoying wine for thousands of years; it's only in the last couple of centuries that the scientific mindset has turned everything into a game of quantifying everything with hard numbers. While I'm not one of those people who believe, literally, that "If you like it, it's good"- because I DO believe that there are better quality and less-better-quality wines out there- I also believe that if someone really enjoys their Manischewitz, then live and let live. (Well, after I taste them on a few things, just to be sure...) EDUCATION: Certified Specialist of Wine; Advanced Level, WSET (passed with distinction); Intro Level, Court of Master Sommeliers; International Sommeliers Guild, Diploma Program; got my BFA cum laude at Ringling School of Art and Design in 1996 (yes, THAT Ringling. No, I am not a clown.) MISC: I think horse manure actually smells good
	SETH OSTEN seth@hunterdonbrewing.com Position: Sales - Northern Central NJ Start Date: 4/20/2008 Experience: Started in the industry as a stock boy/register jockey in a small store. Within a short time realized how much the job encompassed and how much the adult beverage world was continually expanding and changing. Promoted to Manager, Climbed the ladder within the chain Interests: Education:AA Communication Studies RVCC, W.S.E.T.* (wine and spirit education trust of the UK) Advanced Certification Candidate. * The path that masters of wine take
	JOSH ZUBER Position: Warehouse Operations, everything, flipping vans Start Date: 1999 Previous Life: Native American Indian (Chippewah) Interests: Skateboarding, good beer Education: High School Favorite Movie: The Usual Suspects, Menace to Society Miscellaneous Data: I've been growing my dreads for 16 years Favorite Quote: "Promises are comfort to a fool"
	JEFF MCKENNA jeffm@hunterdonbrewing.com Art Department/Point of Sale/Large Format Printing/Website Maintenance Start Date: 5/1/2006 Experience: 10 years experience in liquor industry; graphic design background Interests: painting, playing guitar Education: Associates of Fine Arts in Graphic Design RVCC Miscellaneous data:
	LYLE SMITH WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS Start Date: 2/6/2006 Interests: Fishing/Hunting/Good Beer Previous Life: Had to be a country person Likes: Wrestling/Phillies Baseball/Nascar Miscellaneous Data: Did warehousing for 7 years at previous job for Pillsbury & Kelloggs
	A.J. "BEERFACE" HONEYCHECK aj@hunterdonbrewing.com Position: Credit Compliance *Start Date: January 2008 Experience: Started working at Long Valley Pub and Brewing in high school. Before graduating from William Paterson University in '07, I did some hard time at the Wayne/Mansfield Bottle Kings and more time tasting at the Shepherd and the Knucklehead in Haledon. It was there I developed the passion for micro-brews, so it became an obvious choice to join the HBCo team. Although my job may be more #'s than beer, I will always maintain a deep appreciation and respect for craft beer, which makes this job absolutely worth getting up every morning. Interests: Music (Mars Volta, Brand New, Coheed, Steely Dan, Say Anything....the list goes on) Movies (Communication degree with film concentration. Love to watch 'em, love to make them even more!), Howard Stern (O-qua-tanzin-won!), amazing beer bars, drumming, concerts, fishing, racquetball, baseball, women and making people smile. Misc. Data: Army Reserve (Rogue Army). Eligible bachelor. Allergic to tattoo ink, but have 2 tattoos. Got into knife-fight at 20 with big-C and whooped his sorry ass. Previous Life: court jester, band roadie, oboe player, veterinarian. Quote: "Would I rather be feared or loved? Well, easy. BOTH. I want people afraid of how much they love me."* Michael Scott.

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