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# Who & What --
- URL: https://bevnews.net/who-what-154/
- Published: 2023-12-15T03:57:02.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-15T03:57:02.000Z
- Author: Joel Whitaker

**Crimson Wine Group** names **Adam Howell** chief financial officer. He most recently served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Accounting, for the Duckhorn Portfolio, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange-listed wine company that he joined in 2018\. 

**Colleeen Frei** was hired as executive director of **Washington Winegrowers Association**, effective Jan. 1, 2024, succeeding Vicky Scharlau, who has held the position since 1999\. Frei was a partner at Jeffers, Danielson, Sonn & Aylward, P.S. for 18 years, focusing on agriculture, water rights, business and succession planning, and has served on community boards and state and professional groups bringing extensive nonprofit leadership.

**Brassfield Estate Winer**y hired Chris Baker as its new president. He joins from Daou Family Estates where as senior vp he rebuilt the national sales team.