Today is the 58th birthday of JoAnne Carilli, who within the beer industry most recently was the Head Of Business Development at White Labs, but nore recently she’s again left us for a position with EP Climbing, a climbing wall manufacturer. I first met JoAnne when she was the marketing director for the old Association of Brewers in the late 1990s and she became a good friend. After that, she spent the better part of a decade at White Labs as their Sales & Marketing Director. But she spent a number of years outside the beer industry while raising her son, although we did manage to stay in touch sporadically. I was very pleased to see her back in beer (where she belongs, I’ll argue), but I guess she didn’t see it that way in the end, at least for now. Join me in wishing Joanne a very happy birthday.
