Brewing Success Sustainably: Insights from New Belgium Brewery CEO, Steve Fechheimer

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Steve Fechheimer has been Chief Executive Officer of New Belgium Brewery since 2017 where he oversees New Belgium’s executive team, short-term strategy, industry leadership, and day-to-day operations. He joined New Belgium from Beam Suntory, the world’s third-largest premium spirits company where he was Chief Strategy Officer.

What’s remarkable about New Belgium is that it is recognized as one of Outside Magazine’s Best Places to Work and one of the Wall Street Journal’s Best Small Businesses. The brewery is a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Business as designated by the League of American Bicyclists, and one of World Blu’s most democratic U.S. businesses, and a Certified B Corp.

Prior to Beam Suntory, Steve served as Chief Operating Officer of Sierra Club Green Home, and also as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and Marakon Associates. Steve holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and earned his undergraduate degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

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Fechheimer’s expertise at strategy development and execution in the high-end world of spirits, coupled with New Belgium’s quarter of a century of solid brewing and branding, is a perfect setup for the kind of dynamic future New Belgium is executing. His peers say Fechheimer is smart and driven while also being approachable, and makes for the ideal cultural and business fit for New Belgium.

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