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FOOD & BEVERAGE
Kevin Finn
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant founder and chairman Kevin Finn was ahead of the craft brewery trend when he and his partners opened their first location on Main Street in Newark in 1996. Making award-winning small-batch beers with stills visible to customers, the brand has developed dedicated fans and grown to 21 restaurants
in multiple states, including three
in Delaware. Finn now works with
the board of directors on long-term strategy and the company’s real estate transactions, with Iron Hill now increasingly growing in the South.
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Carl Georigi
Platinum Dining Group
Carl Georigi, the founder and CEO of the Platinum Dining Group behind six restaurants like Capers & Lemons and Taverna, a catering company and retail market, loves the small town feel of Delaware, where his role has him overseeing development, new opportunities and daily operations for the full-service hospitality group. Georigi, who founded his first restaurant in 1996 alongside his wife, Lisa, believes in slowing down and enjoying the moment, even while keeping fresh the rustic Italian and Mexican food offerings of Platinum’s businesses.
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Jeffrey Gosnear
Grotto Pizza
There are few things more iconically Delaware than the special blend
and swirl of cheeses on slices from Grotto Pizza. Today, Jeffrey Gosnear leads the charge in overseeing 23 restaurants and commercial real estate holdings in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania as the business’s president. Over his more than 15 years with the company, Grotto has opened a centralized commissary in Dover, seven new Delaware locations and four restaurants in Maryland. He will oversee the development of a new Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk hotel and Grotto location as well.
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Scott Kammerer
SoDel Concepts
Since taking over SoDel Concepts as CEO in 2014, Scott Kammerer — who worked for the restaurant group
long before that with his late mentor Matt Haley — has focused on the future development of SoDel, the largest restaurant group in Delaware employing more than 1,000 people. Overseeing that momentum is no easy feat: SoDel now includes 22 business operations, with 18 coastal Delaware restaurants, three sports concessions and a wedding-and-events venue. He’s also become a major philanthropist, with SoDel Cares donating more than $100,000 annually to local causes.
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