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Steve BoonePresident
Steve Boone
President
A 30-plus-year veteran of the wine retail, education and marketing industry, Steve Boone currently serves as President and CEO of SakéOne. He began his wine career in 1974 as Safeway Stores' first full-time wine buyer. He transferred to the corporate office in 1979 where he developed and managed the company’s Liquor Barn retail concept and subsequent expansion to 105 stores with annual sales of $330 million. Boone then joined Cost Plus World Market as CEO and was responsible for a major repositioning of the company, including the addition of wine to the company's product lineup. In 1994, he founded Beverages and More!, a 44-store chain of beverage superstores that has since become one of the nation's largest volume wine retailers.
In 2001, Steve joined the Board of Directors of SakéOne where he was named President and CEO in 2004. He has lectured about wine marketing at several universities and business schools internationally, including the University of San Francisco, and the University of California at Davis, and Monash University in Australia, where he is the executive-in-residence of their Executive Wine Program. Steve has served on numerous profit and non-profit boards, from the American Institute of Wine and Food to 800wine.com and is a member of the World Presidents’ Organization. A lifelong wine aficionado, collector and retailer, he has been named a “Retail Superstar” by Market Watch and one of the wine industry’s “100 Most Influential People” by Wine Spectator. He is a Senior Trustee at Pacific University and a member of the board of directors at Kunde Estate Winery.
