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Chairman emeritus and former president of Maker's Mark
Bill Samuels Jr. (born June 14, 1940) is an American bourbon executive who served as president of Maker's Mark for some 35 years and is now the distillery's chairman emeritus. The son of Maker's Mark …
Cigar maker; chairman of Arturo Fuente / Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia.
Carlos "Carlito" Fuente Jr. is an American cigar maker widely regarded as one of the most influential blenders of his generation and a leader of Arturo Fuente (Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia.), the larges…
Founder of CLE Cigars; former president of Camacho Cigars
Christian Luis Eiroa is a Honduran-American cigar maker, the founder and president of the CLE Cigar Company and former president of Camacho Cigars. Born into one of Honduras's most prominent tobacco-g…
President of J.C. Newman Cigar Co., America's oldest family-owned premium cigar maker
Eric Newman is the president and third-generation owner of the J.C. Newman Cigar Company, established in 1895 and the oldest family-owned premium cigar maker in the United States. A grandson of compan…
Seventh-generation master distiller of Jim Beam
Frederick "Fred" Booker Noe III (born 1954) is the seventh-generation master distiller of Jim Beam (James B. Beam Distilling Co.) and the great-grandson of Jim Beam. The son of the legendary distiller…
Master distiller of Wild Turkey; longest-tenured active master distiller in the spirits industry
James C. "Jimmy" Russell (born 1934) is an American master distiller at Wild Turkey in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, and the longest-tenured active master distiller in the global spirits industry, having jo…
President of Padrón Cigars (Piloto Cigars Inc.)
Jorge Padrón is the president of Padrón Cigars (formally Piloto Cigars Inc.), the family-owned company founded by his father, Cuban émigré José Orlando Padrón, in 1964. A Cuban-American businessman wh…
Cuban-American founder and patriarch of Padrón Cigars (1926–2017)
José Orlando Padrón (1926–2017), known as Don Orlando, was a Cuban-American cigar maker who founded Padrón Cigars in 1964 and built it into one of the most acclaimed premium cigar companies in the wor…
Indian-American entrepreneur, founder of Gurkha Cigars
Kaizad Hansotia (also credited on cigar bands as K. Hansotia) is an India-born, Parsi-Zoroastrian entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime chairman and chief executive of Gurkha Cigars, the…
Executive chairman and former president of Heaven Hill, America's largest independent family-owned distiller
Max L. Shapira (born 1943) is an American spirits executive who led Heaven Hill Distillery, the largest independent, family-owned and operated distilled-spirits producer in the United States, for deca…