Foley Family Wines Appoint Three Industry Veterans

SONOMA, Calif., May 20, 2009 -- Tim Matz, President of Foley Family Wines, producers of several premium wine brands including Sebastiani, Kuleto Estate, Merus, Lincourt and Foley Estates, today announced the appointment of several key management positions.

Megghen Driscol has been appointed Vice President, Public Relations and Communications for Foley Family Wines based in Sonoma, California and is responsible for all Public Relations matters within the company.

Driscol, an accomplished industry veteran, joins Foley Family Wines with extensive experience in public relations, corporate communications, external affairs and crisis management. Most recently she served as Director of Public Relations at the largest wine company in the world, Constellation Wines. Prior to that she worked as an independent consultant and held senior management positions at Allied Domecq Wines, Diageo Chateau & Estates, Southcorp Wines and Seagram Wine Company.

Doug Howell has been appointed Director of National Accounts, based in Orlando, Florida and will be responsible for calling on all on-premise National Accounts across the United States.

Howell, also an industry veteran, joins Foley Family Wines with a breadth of experience -- specifically in this channel -- where he most recently was in charge of national accounts at Zonin USA. Prior experience includes national accounts roles with Remy Cointreau as well as National Distributing (now RNDC) in Florida.

Finally, Devin Savano joins Foley Family Wines as Western Region Chain Manager based in Northern California and will be responsible calling on all off premise National and Regional chain accounts on the West Coast.

Savano has spent the past 10 years with Kendall Jackson Wine Estates, most recently as Director of Sales, off-premise and held several management roles within Kendall Jackson's internal distributor network.

"Foley Family Wines is committed to providing world-class wines and we are equally committed to attracting and retaining the best and brightest team members to support our vision," said Matz. "The additions Megghen, Doug and Devin demonstrate our level of commitment to excellence and we are looking forward to collectively carrying out our vision of developing a premium wine company that produces exceptional wines with quality distribution, as well as building a successful enterprise."