Elite Brands of Colorado Our Team
Aaron Gonzales 
Sales-Ft Collins, Northern Colorado
Roots: Ft. Collins, Colorado
Quote: "Wow, this is kinda malty." -Larry Cekola
Bob Stansell
Sales-Grand Junction, Telluride
Roots: So Cal
Quote: "The Best bottle of wine is the one you drink with Friends"
Diana Hardin
Office Manager
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "Who is this 'Pliny' you so often speak of?"
Don Kussmaul
Craft Beer Specialist
Roots: Hammond, Indiana
Quote: “He is a wise man who invented beer” - Plato
Ed Daly
Sales Manager
Roots: Durham, Connecticut
Quote: "There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking." -Ben Franklin
Eric Chiappetta
Sales-Vail/Summit County
Roots: Lakewood, Colorado
Quote: "It goes down the throat like the baby Jesus in velvet underwear"
Issac Espinosa
Warehouse Specialist
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "May the best of your past be the worst of your future."
Jeff Allen
Sales, Southwest Metro
Roots: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Quote: "As far as I can tell, this isn't rocket surgery."
Jeff Seaton
Roots: Loveland, Colorado
Quote: "Sometimes spaghetti likes to be alone."
-Secondo, Big Night
Jeremy Hardin
Warehouse Specialist
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "I drink because I'm thirsty."
Jerry Foth
Warehouse Night Manager
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "Booze is the answer...but I forgot the question."
Jesus Altamirano
Warehouse Specialist
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "Go Raiders!"
Joe Reese
Sales-Boulder, Superior
Roots: Oshkosh, Nebraska
Quote: "Let's factor my hangover into today's workload."
Jon Allaband
Tap Man
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "Here's to being single, seeing double and sleeping triple."
John Marion
Warehouse Day Manager
Roots: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Quote: "If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. If you're willing to do what's hard, life will be easy."
John Neel
Delivery
Roots: Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Quote: "Fiction is the truth inside the lie."-Stephen King
John Sliter
Draft Master
Roots: Troy, New York
Quote: "Make Beer, not war."
John Smart
Sales-Southwest Metro
Roots: Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Quote: "Don't major in the minors!"
Joy Clauda
Sales-CO Springs, Pueblo
Roots: Brooklyn, Michigan
Quote: "I love the taste of wine alone, but it tastes the best with my friends and family"
Joy Walsh
Number Crunching
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "Reminds me of my safari in Africa; somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."
-WC Fields
Julie Gore
Office, Sales Support
Roots: LaCrosse, WI
Quote: "Life is short--drink Scotch!"
Justin Thomas
Warehouse Facilitator
Roots: Wichita, Kansas
Quote: "Eat, drink and enjoy life. Respect the Lord, there's nothing else better to do under the sun."
Kim Anderson
Mtn. Account Sales Manager
Roots: Greensboro, North Carolina
Quote: "Reality is an illusion that occurs due to a lack of wine."
Michael Fine
Sales-Denver Metro
Roots: Woodmere, New York
Quote: "What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?"- W.C. Fields
Michelle Anderson
Office, Sales Support
Roots: Dade City, FL
Quote: "The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young drink everything."
-Oscar Wilde
Nick Jumel
Director of Sales & Marketing
Roots: Strasbourg, France
Quote: "This IPA is very Burgundian."
Nick Orton
Sales, Northern Colorado
Roots: Yankton, South Dakota
Quote: "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Franklin
Paul Howe
Sales-Aspen/Snowmass
Roots: East Lansing, Michigan
Quote: "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."-Frank Sinatra."
Robert Lyles
Delivery
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "Be reasonable--expect the impossible."
Shane Rippentrop
Sales-North Denver/Suburbs
Roots: Maple Grove, MN
Quote: "The world is a bottle. Life is but a dram."
Sheila McGown
Sales, Steamboat, Winter Park
Roots: Wichita, Kansas
Quote: "Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized."
Sheri Savitt
Sales-Metro Denver North/West Suburbs
Roots: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Quote: "Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."
Stu Hurst
On-Premise Sales Manager
Roots: San Mateo, California
Quote: "I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday I have consumed a bottle of wine, except when I
haven't felt well. Those days, I consumed two bottles."
Terry Cekola
President
Roots: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Quote: "If you love what you do, you never have to work a day in your life."
Todd Morphew
Delivery
Roots: Kansas City, Kansas
Quote: "Courage is grace under pressure."- Earnest Hemingway
Travis Meredith
Sales-Denver Metro
Roots: Casper, Wyoming
Quote: "There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it."- W.C. Fields
Tucker 
Office, Warehouse
Roots: Denver, Colorado
Quote: "I love what I do."
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