Panelist
Mark Stutrud
CEO and Founder, Summit Brewing Company
A Wahpeton, North Dakota native, Mr. Stutrud graduated in 1975 from the University of North Dakota with a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work. In 1984, Mr. Stutrud founded Summit Brewing Company. He completed the market research, business plan, development, and financing to establish a 4,000 barrel per year brewery in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Commercial production commenced in September 1986. The original brewery experienced five expansions reaching a maximum capacity of 34,000 barrels per year. By December 1998 Summit Brewing Company completed construction of its current facility. This modern plant, with an annual capacity of 120,000 barrels, is the first brewery built in Minnesota in 75 years.
Mr. Stutrud received professional training from Charles A. McElevey (a 1968 graduate of Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany) and Frederick H. Thomasser (a 1945 graduate of the United States Brewing Academy) and completed the courses of Brewing Theory and Practice and Brewing Microbiology and Microscopy at the Siebel Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. In July of 1991, Mr. Stutrud was awarded the J.E. Siebel Memorial Scholarship and graduated with the 1991 Course in Brewing Technology at the Siebel Institute.
Mr. Stutrud is an active member of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, the American Society of Brewing Chemists and a life member of the Campaign for Real Ale. Mr. Stutrud has served as President of the Saint Paul-Minneapolis District of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas and was the General Co-chair for the Master Brewers Association of the Americas 111th National Convention held in Minneapolis in September 1998. He served on the Board of Directors of the Brewers Association of America from 1995 through 2001. Mr. Stutrud was elected to the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Restaurant Association in November 1998 and was elected to the Board of Directors of the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce in 2005.
In February 2000, Mr. Stutrud received the Business Innovator of the Year award by the Center for Innovation at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. In addition, he was a 2000 finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. In May 2004 Summit Brewing Company received the Deubener Award for small business excellence in manufacturing from the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Keynote
Harry Debes
Panelists
Stephen B. Young
Sara Criger
Bonnie Holub
Douglas A. Johnson
Mark Stutrud
Peter Vaill |
