Matt Deegan is Constellation’s Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, reporting to Robert Hanson, Executive Vice President and President, Wine + Spirits.

In this role, Matt is responsible for overseeing the wine and spirits sales organization, inclusive of the U.S., the Americas, sales strategy and commercial planning.

Matt joined Constellation Brands in 2016 as senior vice president, sales for the company’s wine and spirits division, where he was responsible for managing 19 states.

Before joining Constellation Brands, Matt held a number of senior leadership roles in sales and marketing with increasing responsibility at Campari, Beam Suntory, and Southern Wine and Spirits.

Matt and his wife Jori reside in Elmhurst Illinois with their three daughters. Matt is an avid runner who enjoys playing golf, reading and spending time with his family.

Kerri Joy joined Constellation Brands over 5 years ago as the Director, Learning & Development. She has over 15 years of people development experience. In her current role Kerri is responsible for the onboarding, continued education, and marketing enablement to the beer sales organization. As a Director, she partners with business leaders to create engaging learning courses that meet the needs of leadership priorities.
Prior to joining Constellation Brands, Kerri created learning and coaching programs as the Director, Learning & Development at Tribune Publishing for 10 years. She worked to build out new business process and partnered with senior stakeholders to advise on career development, performance management, and people strategy.
Kerri is passionate about the development of people and creating space for individuals to meet their career goals. She is dedicated to increasing diversity both professionally and personally. She is driven by the belief that diverse teams and environments are contributing factors for success of any kind. Kerri is one of the founding members and current global co-lead of AASCEND (African Americans Strengthening Constellation’s Engagement, Networking and Development) business resource group at Constellation Brands.

Responsibilities

As a Sr. Project Manager within Global PMO at Alight Solutions, Chris is responsible for leading and directing both internal and external client team’s high priority and complete projects. She specializes in projects with payroll, timekeeping, year-end/begin, application enhancement, Mergers and Acquisitions and inter-domain connectivity managing all aspects of the project life cycle (initiate, plan, execute, control and close).

About Me

Chris has been with Alight Solutions for 19 years and started out on implementing 2 large financial institutions and managing their BAU Operations teams as the WFA/HCM Manager for 10 years prior to moving to Global PMO.

Chris has a passion for mentoring and is a mentor with the Gwinnett County Schools in Georgia.  She’s also currently leading the BPN mentoring pilot for Alight.

Chris is a graduate of Northeaster Illinois University with a degree in Human Resource Development and holds an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Chris has a Six Sigma Green Belt, a Professional Human Resources and Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the workplace certifications.

Ask Me About

Ask me about mentoring, M&A, Operations and Process Improvements and the work we are doing within our Colleague Led Communities.

Favorite Quote

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.  If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. (Zig Ziglar)

Penny Killow has had a career in IT, Business Resilience and Crisis Management. Currently she works as the Global Crisis and Business Continuity Manager for Moody’s Corporation since Feb 2016, based in the London Office but working flexibly from her home in Derbyshire.

In 2020 Penny ‘slept walked’ into her own Menopause missing the signs due to stress and the global oddness that was Covid, it almost resulted in her resigning from her rewarding position.

To ensure that others didn’t follow the same path Penny chose to build awareness and lead an initiative partnered with the Women’s Business Resource Group to introduce the concept of Menopause in the workplace within Moody’s.

2 years later Moody’s is now a UK Menopause Friendly Company – next step the rest of the company worldwide

Justin Roche is the Associate Director of the Insight Analytics Team at Seramount, supporting the administration, analysis, and reporting efforts for Seramount’s DEI initiatives and indexes. This work provides benchmarking and insights that help companies assess their areas of strength and opportunities for improvement to create a more inclusive workplace for their employees.
Before joining Seramount, Justin was the Associate Director of Strategic Analysis at EAB, where he helped support undergraduate admissions teams by using partner data to inform marketing strategy and audience selection. In this role, he also helped improve team processes and efficiencies while using his prior experiences as an educator to support and train new team members.
Prior to his tenure with EAB, Justin spent fourteen+ years as an educator in three different Virginia public school districts. There, Justin rediscovered his own passion for learning and mathematics by working with elementary and high school students with disabilities. He ended his career as the department chair of a mathematics department at the high school level after helping thousands of young people learn and find inspiration in the world around them.
Justin earned his BS degree in Special Education from State University of New York, College at Geneseo, and his Master of Business Administration from The College of William & Mary. He currently lives in the Richmond, Virginia, area and enjoys spending time with his spouse and their two cats and small dog. In his free time, he enjoys the outdoors, doing yard work, gardening, and relaxing at home with his family.

Ana Guevara is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Markets for WEConnect International. In this role, she is responsible for creating innovative global strategies that will accelerate the organization’s mission, leading to increased awareness and impact. Ana oversees the Region Teams across the globe, the member buyer and women-owned business development and engagement teams, as well as leading marketing and technology initiatives. Ana focuses on growing WEConnect International’s growth and on delivering high-quality services to attract, retain and connect member buyers and women-owned suppliers.

Ana is recognized as an innovative, bridge-building executive with significant expertise in international trade and finance, business expansion and market development, public policy and economic development, corporate social responsibility, and thought leadership. She has managed multimillion-dollar budgets and projects, leading successful multicultural teams around the world.

Ana’s distinguished career spans business, government and economic development. She is a former board member of the World Bank representing the United States, and Senior Advisor for Trade and Entrepreneurship at USAID. She served at the International Trade Administration as head of the U.S. Export Assistant Centers of the International Trade Administration, head of the U.S. National Tourism Office and Ex-Officio Board Member of the Export-Import Bank. In the private sector, Ana started her own international trade consulting firm, and was previously a Vice President for Corporate and Public Affairs for UPS and Walmart.

Ana earned her B.A. in Public and International Affairs from the Elliott School at The George Washington University. She is multi-cultural and multilingual with language skills in English, Spanish and French. She has received several certificates for post-graduate work, including most recently Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School.

Lonette K. Merriman joined Constellation in July 2016 as Vice President, Associate General Counsel. In her role, Lonette is responsible for global intellectual property (trademarks, copyrights, and patents) portfolio management and enforcement for Constellation’s portfolio of beer, wine, and spirits brands.  Preceding her tenure at Constellation Brands, Lonette held the position of Alcohol Regulatory Specialist at McDermott Will & Emery, a law firm in Washington, DC, where she counseled beer, wine and spirits manufacturers on alcohol beverage matters, including federal and state laws and regulations, licensing, permitting, labeling, formulas, advertising, trade practice and intellectual property matters.

Lonette is also passionate about advancing a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Constellation Brands.  For her, this means supporting employees in their ability to show up authentically while contributing to the organization’s success.  Lonette is a founding member and global co-lead of AASCEND (African Americans Strengthening Constellation’s Engagement, Networking and Development), Constellation’s Black/African American ERG.  As an ERG leader, she is committed to facilitating meaningful and purposeful change that positively impacts Constellation Brands’ workplace culture.

In addition to Lonette’s work at Constellation Brands, she joined the Board of Trustees for Exploration Elementary Charter School for Science and Technology in Rochester, NY in 2018.  She became Treasurer of the Board in 2020.  And she also serves on the Monroe Community College (MCC) Foundation Board as a Foundation Director.  The MCC Board connects private and corporate philanthropy with opportunities to support MCC students in their educational goals and success.