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FOOD & BEVERAGE GOVERNMENT
Michael Stiglitz
Two Stones Pub &
Two Stones Pub Brewing Co.
As director of operations of Two Stones Pub and its brewing company counterpart, Michael Stiglitz oversees everything from managing operations and projects to financials and performance analysis to strategic planning, collaboration, customer service, human resources, and team leadership and development. The
Two Stones Pub group, launched in the Newark area in 2011 “as a craft beer-only destination,” now includes six locations across Delaware and Pennsylvania. The destination spots not only boast dozens of beers, but also “an eclectic mix of pub grub.”
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Eric Sugrue
Big Fish Restaurant Group
Big Fish Restaurant Group owner Eric Sugrue opened his first restaurant, Big Fish Grill, in Rehoboth Beach, alongside his brother, Norman, in 1997. Since then, the siblings took their love of the restaurant industry and expanded it into one of the state’s most well-known restaurant groups. The company now includes 15 award- winning concepts, most of which are restaurants focused on fresh seafood and can be found throughout coastal Delaware and in Wilmington. They include Big Fish Grill, Trolley Square Oyster House and Mikimotos.
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Xavier Teixido
Harry’s Hospitality Group
Xavier Teixido has been evolving
the Harry’s Hospitality Group brand since purchasing Harry’s Savoy Grill in Wilmington in 1993. Over the
years, he expanded the concept to multiple restaurants, which includes Kid Shellen’s in Trolley Square. In the early 2000s, he helped bring attention to the First State restaurant scene during his tenure as chairman of the National Restaurant Association.
He is an award-winning hospitality entrepreneur and past president of the Delaware Restaurant Association who has served on other local boards and is also active in many local charitable causes.
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Jeff Bullock
Delaware Department of State
In 2009, Jeff Bullock was appointed Delaware’s 80th Secretary of State by Gov. Jack Markell and reappointed
by Gov. John Carney. He has held the position longer than any Delaware Secretary of State in more than two centuries. The state department contains more than two dozen agencies and divisions, ranging from the Division of Small Business; the Division of Human and Civil Rights; Delaware Public Archives; Regulation and Licensing; DIvision of Arts; the Division Historical and Cultural Affairs and the Division of Corporations. The Division of Corporations’s franchise tax for incorporating in the state has drawn in millions to the state spending plan alone.
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