Hay ended up working for Schultz as Senior Vice President of Global Coffee Authority for Starbucks and traveling constantly around the world with a generous budget to start those schools and clinics. Coffee and public service were in Hay’s blood.
Hay just finished three years as president of the board of directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley and served on the board of the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito for four years. He recently received an Honorary Lifetime Membership award to the National Coffee Association, only awarded 14 times in 110 years. Currently he is Board Chair and a minority owner of Kona Hills, a 2000-acre coffee estate under development in Kona, Hawaii.
Hay and wife Lyn “retired” to Sonoma in 2012 and lost their brand new dream home in the 2017 fires. They know this stress up close and personal.
Medeiros and Hay combined forces to develop Leatherhead Coffee. And it is good.
Dub Hay wants to present the new…
