Richard Kline, President & CEO
Richard is the founder and CEO of eWinery Solutions. A true entrepreneur at heart, Kline has provided the direction behind the company’s superior technology and is responsible for leading all aspects of eWinery’s business model. While at eWinery, he has helped many wine industry retailers realize significant sales growth through the adoption of eWinery’s platform. A wine industry veteran, he brings extensive experience to his position, spanning the fields of sales, marketing, and management advisory services among others. Richard attended the University of Idaho studying the odd combination of football, landscape architecture and business administration.
Ronald Scharman, COO
Scharman is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Morrell Wine Group, a luxury wine and lifestyle brand in New York with operations that include Morrell & Company Retail Division (store, catalog, and internet), Morrell Restaurant Division (Morrell Wine Bar & Café), Morrell Fine Wine Auction Division, Morrell Wine Storage Division, Morrell Wine Institute, and Morrell Wine Events.
Prior to joining Morrell, Scharman held major COO and CEO positions over a 12 year period with several national specialty retail chains in the cosmetics and fragrance, home decorating, and fashion industries. Before launching his retail executive career, Scharman spent 7 years in corporate and investment banking in New York City with major financial institutions.
Mr. Scharman received his MBA in finance and accounting from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management, following four years of work in Southeast Asia and the Far East, which included a two year U.S. Peace Corps assignment in The Philippines, and two years employment with a Japanese trading company in Tokyo. He received his B.S. degree in Agricultural Economics and International Development from Cornell University.
Bodie Paden, Senior Software Engineer
A California native, Bodie Paden began his professional career in software development at the age of seventeen, building budget planning software for the Pentagon as an enlisted member of the US Air Force. Completing a four year tour and earning a B.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Maryland, he came back to California to begin working with Booz Allen Hamilton as a software development consultant. After seven years of consulting for the Department of Defense and NASA, he left for the far more interesting world of wine and joined eWinery Solutions as Senior Software Engineer. Bodie also volunteers as the CTO on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the North Bay, in addition to being a “Big Brother” himself.
