Claudia, our CEO and Partner, has been has been curating customer experiences for over twenty years for premium food and beverage, consumer goods and lifestyle brands. Claudia’s career has taken her from brands as diverse as Adidas and Stolen Spirits, to the IL Lottery, and from producing the Opening of the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, to procuring talent for President Barack Obama’s 50th Birthday party, and being a founding partner of Chicago mainstay; Debonair Social Club.

Finding her passion in spirits and consumer packaged goods, Claudia partnered with the Blue Blazer team bringing a well rounded track record of creating and managing dynamic businesses.

She understands how to select and develop the best ideas within the budget and time constraints to maximize strategic output from supply chain to most sippable cocktail.

When she is not crunching numbers and planning to take over the world a few brands at a time, you can find Claudia cooking for friends, travelling.... or screaming about a Formula 1 Race.

claudia@drinkblueblazer.com

Josh Kaplan is a co-founder of Blue Blazer, an attorney, a music manager and addicted to start-ups. Josh brings his entrepreneurial background and real world experience to the team and focuses on value add partnerships for the company. When Josh has a moment away from one of his several ventures he enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids (while drinking a Blue Blazer cocktail).

josh@drinkblueblazer.com

Brian Troglia is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Founder of Blue Blazer. With over 25 years of experience providing legal representation to hospitality clients, Brian's knowledge of the industry and love for all things liquor makes Blue Blazer a perfect fit for his passion and desire to bring a new standard of ready-to-drink cocktails to market. Brian works with the Blue Blazer team to develop clients, oversee business growth, and provide leadership in a constantly evolving segment of the liquor industry. An avid outdoorsman, Brian is excited to now have high-quality and ready-to-drink Blue Blazer cocktails as a "travel companion" to wind down after a long day on the water or in the field.

brian@drinkblueblazer.com

Starting at an early age, Pat showed a penchant for the entrepreneurial spirit – flipping Beanie Babies at the height of the craze which he parlayed into his first investments before the age of 10. Since turning “professional”, his career has taken him from startup to startup in the music, entertainment, and food/beverage spaces where he’s played a number of roles to help round out his operational and creative skillsets. 

Before joining Blue Blazer, Pat owned and operated a Chicago-based creative agency, that worked extensively in the food and beverage space, with much of that focused on the alcohol and cocktail industries. Through his time there, he helped multiple brands bring both their digital and physical presences into modernity while helping other owners and entrepreneurs solve their unique business challenges. 

While creative at his core, Pat brings a blend of left and right-brain thinking that allows him to see challenges in a unique light. One day he can be knee-deep in financial modeling and spreadsheets – the next you can find him chopping up social content or building marketing automation tools to help push the business forward. 

Having overseen everything from strategy to brand building, website creation to digital marketing, there isn’t an aspect of business he hasn’t been involved in and it's this hatrack approach to work that gets him excited to do what he does every day.

pat@drinkblueblazer.com