RICHMOND, Virginia – Hardywood Park Craft Brewery has introduced adjustments to its management workforce in preparation for its subsequent part of development, together with the promotion of Kate Lee to the position of President.
Constructing on years of expertise within the brewing business, Lee will transfer from her present place as Vice President of Operations and High quality to guide Hardywood’s daily enterprise operations. Hardywood’s first worker, and present Vice President of Manufacturing and Head Brewer, Brian Nelson, has been promoted to the Brewmaster place, and present Vice President of Finance, Doug Sulanke, has risen to the position of CFO. Co-founders Eric McKay and Patrick Murtraugh will function CEO and COO, respectively, and give attention to deepening relationships with key stakeholders, supporting their management workforce, making Hardywood the absolute best place to work, and exploring new alternatives for innovation and development.
Lee graduated from North Carolina State with a B.S. in Meals Science. She got here to Hardywood in early 2014, after 12 years with Anheuser-Busch InBev, the place she was instrumental in main their high quality operations at 4 of its breweries throughout the nation, and served as Assistant Brewmaster at ABI’s Williamsburg, Virginia facility. Since becoming a member of the Hardywood workforce, she has develop into a beloved member of the Hardywood household, constructing trusting relationships with employees, distributors, and clients, and incomes her MBA from VCU in 2021. “Kate has excelled on the highest ranges inside the brewing business, she possesses an unmatched depth of information within the science of constructing world class beer, and thru her dynamic management abilities, she’s propelled Hardywood’s evolution into one of many largest unbiased breweries on the east coast,” shared co-founder and CEO, Eric McKay, including “we can not wait to see the affect Kate could have within the years forward at Hardywood.”
Nelson, a Virginia Tech graduate with a level in Mechanical Engineering, grew to become Hardywood’s first full time worker in 2011. An avid homebrewer, Nelson beforehand labored as an engineer at Honda, earlier than brewing professionally in Ohio and New Zealand. Sulanke joined Hardywood in 2018, bringing a wealth of govt expertise in manufacturing, and a robust institutional background as a CPA with an MBA from College of Richmond, in addition to a ardour for dwelling brewing. Co-founder and COO Patrick Murtaugh added, “Doug and Brian are indispensable property to our management workforce. Having been with us because the starting, Brian has develop into the center of the brewing program at Hardywood, and all through the years, has led our workforce of proficient brewers to provide world class beers which have gained a litany of worldwide awards. Doug is a talented monetary skilled whose steerage we’re fortunate to have…I’ve heard he’s a fairly good brewer too!”
Moreover, Hardywood is selling three workers to the director degree: Andrew Edwards as Director of Operations, Tim Norman as Director of Manufacturing, and Maddie Wooden as Director of Advertising. This rounds out Hardywood’s management workforce to incorporate Catherine Poston, Director of Occasions, Massie Wallace, Director of Taprooms, and Doug Ix, Director of Gross sales.
About Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery is Virginia’s largest craft brewer. Their top-selling beers embody Richmond Lager, Nice Return IPA, and the seasonal Gingerbread Stout. Hardywood has two taprooms within the Richmond space – one in larger Scott’s Addition that’s dwelling to the Hardywood Pizza Kitchen, and a second, in West Creek, located on 24 acres of rolling hills alongside Tuckahoe Creek on the Goochland County border.
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