KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12
JAMES DAMIAN
BWW Chairman
of the Board
From 1998
to 2010, Damian
served as senior
vice president,
chief design officer
of Best Buy’s Customer Experience
Design Group. Prior to that, Damian
held various executive posts throughout
the retail industry. He currently serves
on the boards of Century Park Capital
Partners; Moss Inc.; and as co-founder
and member of the Dotopia Foundation Board for Social Responsibility. In
addition to serving as chairman of the
board, Damian also sits on Buffalo Wild
Wings’ Compensation Committee, Audit
Committee and Executive Committee.
He has expertise in concept development and guest experience and how
these transfer to an international model
that fits in other cultures. While at
Best Buy, Damian was responsible for
reinventing the experience of shopping
in mass specialty retail. He uses this
experience at BWW in the relentless
pursuit of new concepts that go against
the grain and challenge the status quo.
BOB MYERS
General
Manager of
the Golden
State Warriors
Myers was
named the 201415 NBA Executive
of the Year for constructing a roster
that won a franchise-record 67 regular-season games and culminated in
winning the 2015 NBA Championship
– the team’s first title in 40 years. The
team returned to the NBA Finals in
2016. He also won a championship as
a player, having been a member of the
UCLA Bruins’ squad that captured the
NCAA title in 1995.
Before joining the Warriors, Myers
spent five years at Wasserman Media
Group, one of the largest global sports
and entertainment companies in the
world, as managing executive of a
client list of nearly 20 NBA players in
their team and endorsement contracts.
THURSDAY, OCT. 13
MARK BROWN
President and
CEO of Sazerac
Company, Inc.
Brown got his
start in the beverage alcohol business at a relatively
young age when he began working in
his family’s pub business in the U.K. in
1971. In 1976, Brown joined British
alcohol cider-maker H.P. Bulmer as a
salesperson and by 1978 was sales
trainer. He came to the United States
in 1980, operating as the U.S. field
sales manager for Bulmer.
From 1981 to 1992, he served
as director of New Products, national
sales manager and, eventually, vice
president of Sales and Marketing
with Sazerac. Brown left Sazerac and
joined Brown-Forman (no relation) as
senior vice president and COO of the
Select Brands Group for two years.
He then spent the next three years as
president of the Advancing Markets
Group, before returning to Sazerac in
June 1997 in his current role.
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