Jay Conway, Vice President of National Accounts at the Click Wine Group joins Cameron Hughes Wine as Partner, Senior Vice President; Conway to lead national expansion of Cameron Hughes Wine

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.- - Cameron Hughes Wine (www.chwine.com), the California wine merchant is thrilled to announce the appointment of Jay Conway to Partner, Senior Vice President. Conway will play a leading role in the continued national expansion of the Cameron Hughes Wine, supporting the company’s phenomenal growth in their fifth year of business.

Prior to joining Cameron Hughes, Conway led the national sales team at the Click Wine Group as Vice President of National Accounts. There he was directly responsible for the growth of and success of Fat Bastard and other major wine brands. In addition, he led the national buying program and developed more than fifty ground breaking sales programs which helped the impressive growth of Click by increasing business more than 350% in less than two years under his leadership.

“Jay has vision, determination, and no pretence,” says Cameron Hughes, founder of Cameron Hughes Wine. “His unparalleled reputation of thinking forward, innovating, and selling new concepts is really the perfect fit to our company which operates a unique business model in the wine industry.”

Conway began is career in the wine business over 18 years ago. He has held director level positions at Ernst & Julio Gallo in both domestic and international sales and worked as a national sales leader and manager for Constellation Brands and Vincor. In all of his roles, Jay has been active in leading sales programs, driving growth, and innovating new approaches to connect new brands to consumers.

Conway and Hughes first met in 1997 on a sales call at Dubs Liquors in Mansfield, Massachusetts. At the time, they represented competing brands that led to some friendly banter. Fast-forward ten years, a meaningful friendship and a shared view of the industry, discussions of a real collaboration finally became a reality.

"After five great years at the Click Wine Group I felt the time was right to join Cameron,” says Conway. “The business of wine is changing and Cameron’s business model is one piece of our wine future and I am thrilled to have an opportunity to participate in this exciting company at this time as the business of wine is changing rapidly.”

About Cameron Hughes Wine
Cameron Hughes Wine is dedicated to buying super premium small wine lots in bulk, blending and then selling under the Cameron Hughes label. By acting as a wine negotiant, Hughes purchases great wine from wineries all over the world, bottles under his label and then sells directly to the consumer at a great savings, bypassing traditional channels in the three-tiered wine industry.

Cameron Hughes Wine was founded in October 2001 by Cameron Hughes and his wife, Jessica Kogan. Cameron Hughes’ wines are found exclusively at Costco and direct to consumer online at Cameron Hughes website http://www.chwine.com/store. For more information about Cameron Hughes Wine please go to http://www.chwine.com

Contact:
Rachel Reed/Kimberly Charles
Charles Communications Associates
Phone: 415-701-9463
Email: rachel@charlescomm.com

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