Gianfranco Verga, 36

Cofounder/President, SevenFifty, New York City

Taming the Three-Tier System

Verga spent three years at Louis 649 in New York City as beverage director and general manager and another at a beverage consulting team before cofounding SevenFifty in 2011.

Providing data management tools that connect buyers, distributors and retailers in the alcohol industry’s byzantine three-tier system, SevenFifty today has more than 90,000 restaurant and retail buyers using its marketplace. In 2020, the company approached $1 billion in sales volume, and earlier this year it announced $23 million in Series B funding.

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