TFC’s Board combines skills and experience from the fields of international winemaking and marketing, technology, accounting and finance, and entrepreneurial top management.
J. Scott Burr, representing the fourth generation of a Northern California winegrowing family, is an enology graduate of California State University at Fresno. He played a key role in the domestic and international success of ConeTech Inc., a California-based wine technology company with subsidiaries in Latin America, Europe, and South Africa.
Carla S. Hudson CPA began her career with Touche Ross. She later became CFO of a publicly traded real estate company, before co-founding Huey & Hudson, a California accounting firm. She is currently a partner in the much larger Bianchi, Kasavan and Pope, into which H&H merged. Carla Hudson also sits on the Board of the Monterey County Bank, a regional Northern California bank.
Robert Pettit, is a graduate of Columbia University and of Cornell’s Executive Program. After 20 years with ARCO, where he became Western Hemisphere Vice President of a major division, he founded a successful California commercial real estate company.
Guy Young's entrepreneurial wine marketing vision led to his acquisition of Castle Growers in 1995, and his subsequent merging of that company in 1999 with Hedley Wright, to create HwCg, which grew to become one of the UK’s leading wine marketing and distribution houses with revenues of £40 million. HwCg was ultimately merged into PLB Group Ltd. (Britain’s largest independent wine marketer/distributor). Guy joined TFC as Business Strategy Director in mid-2010.
Anthony C. Dann, spent much of his early career in senior marketing and CEO positions with the international divisions of two major multinational consumer products marketers, before switching to the wine industry in the 1980’s. In 1991 he founded ConeTech Inc. of which he is President and CEO. Later, ConeTech and several other founding investors created TFC Wines & Spirits Inc.
Robert R. Kauffman, a chemical engineer with a Finance MBA from Wharton, has had a long and successful career at top management level of entrepreneurial companies. After being a Senior VP and President of major ARCO subsidiaries, he has been for the past 20 years President and CEO of 2 publicly traded companies in the energy field, first Photocomm Inc. (now Kyocera Solar) and currently Alanco Technologies Inc.
Andrés Schloss, resides in Chile but is US educated (with BA and MS degrees). He has a high profile in Chile’s wine industry, as owner of a major winery equipment and technology supply firm and participant in a celebrated family-owned winery.
David Stevens gained an Economics degree after study at University of Glasgow and Williams College, MA, followed by an MS in Enology from California’s prestigious UC Davis. In his subsequent career, David has successfully combined multiple achievements: winemaking at three prestigious Napa wineries (Domaine Chandon, Freemark Abbey and Bouchaine Vineyards); extension faculty lecturing at UC Davis; authorship of several technical papers; regular wine judging at 5 major international competitions; speaking and moderating at national and international conferences; and international consulting work for, among others, Booz Allen Hamilton. And, most recently, the key pioneer work on the "building" of lighter style, less alcoholic wines that truly deserve to be called wine.