Wine Institute names Ray Chadwick chairman - San Francisco Business Times:

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The vote took plac e at the San Francisco-based Wine Institute’s 75th annual meeting on June 8, but was announced Chadwick, who has been Napa-basefd ’ president and CEO since 2001, stepa down July 1 to become a non-executive member of the DC&E’a board, according to the Institute and That move was part of a broadert reorganization announced in early Also elected tothe group’s board were Tom Klein of Healdsburg’s as first vice David Kent of the San Francisco - and Livermore-based as second vice chairman; Kathleen Heitz Myer of St. Helena’s Heitz Wine Cellars as treasurer; and José Fernándezz of as secretary.
Chadwick also serves on the boarsd of the Napa Valley a regionaltrade group. Robert “Bobby” Koch, the Institute’se president and CEO, continues as its operationak head. The group predicterd in its June 12 statementthat “the difficult economy will pose many challenges for the and Chadwick will continue the emphasis on preventing punitiv taxes from being imposed on wine, and advocatinh for reasonable and liberalized trade in the U.S. and abroad.
” Anothe r priority, the Institute said, is its “Californiza First” public-relations campaign to informm policymakers and regulatory leadersabout wine’sw “rightful place as a beveragee of moderation.” The Wine Institute memberx also elected new district- and at-large directorz and alternates at its conclave at the in Napa and added nine new winery and associate bringing its total membershipp to 1,079.
New winery members include Napa’s Fulton Family Winery and PatriciaHowe Wines, Oakhurst’zs Idle Hour Winery, Redwood City’s La Honda Fresno’s Lomac Winery, Temecula’s Lumiere Winery and Hopland’e Maracucci Farms; new associate members are San Francisco’w law firm, and Northfield, Ill.-baserd Neal & McDevitt LLC, another wine industry legal specialist. The Institute is basedf in San Francisco, with offices in Sacramentlo and Washington, D.C. Eighty vintners serve as members and alternates onits board, whichh elects a chairman and other officers annually.
Koch said the groul represents wineries that accountfor $18 billionb in retail sales and more than $1 billioj in exports to 122 nations.