Justin Beam is the director of operations at the Texas-based restaurant chain Mexican Sugar.

Jose de Jesus Medina Camacho is the co-founder and beverage director at Adios Bar in Birmingham, Alabama.

Todd Mulhair is the beverage director of the Centro Restaurant Group.

Dr. Jacopo Mazzeo is a freelance wine and drinks journalist and consultant.
He regularly contributes to leading trade and consumer publications including Wine Enthusiast, Whisky Magazine, Decanter, Meininger, Club Oenologique, Harper's, Pix Wine, and Good Beer Hunting. He consults on consumer trends and marketing strategy and offers copywriting services to drinks firms and agencies. Jacopo is a former sommelier, he judges international wine, beer, and spirits competitions, and sat twice on the board of directors of the British Guild of Beer Writers. Before he embraced full-time journalism, he studied musicology at the University of Bologna and took a PhD at the University of Southampton.