8/19 - Tony Chiapetta, Sean Greenwood, Tom Hinde

Tony Chiapetta - Owner  - Sweetie Pies  - Napa Valley 

The best thing that ever happened to Toni (and the dessert-eating world) was the day she was fired. Yep, after Donna fired her, Toni retreated to her Victorian apartment, fired up her waaay too small oven and began baking. With only room for one cake at a time, baking was a slow, tedious process.  Toni's business was growing, but her oven wasn't, so in 1994 moved to a commercial kitchen with convection ovens and walk-in coolers. Life was good.  Then, in 2000, it was time for Sweetie Pies to make the big move. After months of building the bakery on paper, actual construction began and on Sept. 15, 2000, Sweetie Pies became one of the first businesses at The Hatt Building.  Today, Sweetie Pies bakes for food distributors, retail stores and scores of doting mothers and blushing brides.

Sean Greenwood - Public Relations Manager - Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry's is an American ice cream company, a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate, that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream novelty products, manufactured by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc., headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, United States, with the main factory in Waterbury. It is most well-known for its ice cream brand, founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. In 1977 lifelong friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield completed a correspondence course on ice cream making from the Pennsylvania State University. On May 5, 1978, with a $12,000[2] investment the pair opened an ice cream parlor in a renovated gas station in downtown Burlington, Vermont. In 1979, they marked their anniversary by holding the first-ever free cone day, now a nationwide annual celebration.

Tom Hinde -Pres & Dir of Winemaking -  Flowers Vineyard & Winery

As nursery owners in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Walt and Joan Flowers had long dreamed of combining their love of wine with their passion for agriculture. They knew they wanted to produce their favorite varietals, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir; what they didn't know was that their path would eventually lead them across country to Northern California's rugged Sonoma Coast. After responding to a small classified ad in a national wine publication, that's exactly where they landed.  In 1989, after many information-gathering trips to Napa and Sonoma, Walt and Joan purchased 321 acres, including a ridge top, high above the Pacific Ocean on the northern Sonoma Coast. With the same determination they drew on to build their successful nursery business; the Flowers proceeded with the dream of producing their favorite cool-climate varietals in a place they believed uniquely suited to growing them.  Today, Flowers Winery produces 15,000 cases of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from its two estate properties, Camp Meeting Ridge and Flowers Ranch, as well as select vineyards in the coolest regions of the Sonoma Coast AVA, which are farmed to Flowers' specifications by their own crews. In addition to direct consumer sales, the wines are sold to fine restaurants and retailers in the US and overseas.