Beverages & More Inc.

Wilfred Wong is a San Francisco-based writer who is also Cellarmaster and E-commerce Director with Beverages & More. Wong is a 35-year veteran of the wine industry. In his current role at BevMo, he is responsible for the overall product content for the chain as well as writer of the company's monthly newsletters. Wilfred maintains the ever changing information of the 4,000+ wine skus offered by this 62-store California retail beverage chain In addition to this day job, he writes regular columns in Vineyard & Winery Management Magazine and Beverage Industry News.

Zounds has assembled a world class Board of Directors with expertise in fields ranging from computers/electronics, retail, marketing and medical sales. Bannus Hudson is Chairman of the Board for Zounds, Inc. and is the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Beverages & More! Mr. Hudson brings an impressive twenty-nine year track record of successfully building and managing business entities. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Hudson served as President and CEO of Equity Enterprises, Inc., an independent strategic advisory service for CEO's and corporations during periods of growth, start-up, turnaround and expansion. As President and CEO of United States Shoe Corporation (NYSE) from 1990 through 1995, Mr. Hudson successfully turned around the company's $700 million Footwear Group and completed a major restructuring of the company's $1.2 billion Apparel Retailing Group, which included the Casual Corner and Petite Sophisticate specialty retail chains. He negotiated the sale of the Footwear Group for a substantial premium to Nine West Group and the sale of U.S. Shoe to Luxottica SpA of Italy in 1995. U.S. Shoe's market capitalization was $400-500 million in the Fall of 1993, when most of the restructuring and management team changes were completed; this nearly doubled over the following twelve months and was increased to roughly $1.4 billion with the final merger negotiations with Luxottica SpA. Mr. Hudson joined U.S. Shoe as part of LensCrafters in 1985, where he served as President and CEO. Mr. Hudson was instrumental in helping the company achieve worldwide industry leadership and growing the chain from twenty-five stores and $40 million in annual sales in 1985 to over six hundred stores and $900 million in sales. Previously, Mr. Hudson enjoyed a seventeen year career with Procter & Gamble where he held senior level positions in manufacturing, brand management and category management for a number of the company's most successful brands. Mr. Hudson has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas.