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Meet the 22-year-old DU graduate running 162-year-old Tivoli Brewing Co.
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Fresh out of the University of Denver, Salomon Marcos Garza Jr. was told he had three months to save Tivoli Brewing Co. when he took over in January.
The 22-year-old is the son of the brewery’s majority stakeholder, Salomon Juan Marcos Villarreal, and had been working at Tivoli for six months before his promotion to replace former CEO Ken Hehir.
“I’m very young but I have the drive and the education,” Garza told BusinessDen. “It’s a team job and, I know I don’t know a lot of stuff about the brewing side and selling side, but I’ve been working with my staff to learn. As one of the oldest breweries in Denver, we want to make it the best.”
The pandemic has hit breweries and restaurants hard, but it may have hit college-campus businesses even harder, since they rely on students visiting in person for much of their income. For Tivoli Brewing, which occupies a unique spot in the Tivoli Student Union building on the Auraria campus, this double whammy has had a crippling effect.
In December, just before Christmas, the brewery’s ownership group laid off at least half of its staff, including its lead brewers, brewery director and longtime taproom manager; it also overhauled its management for the second time in three years: Tivoli president Ken Hehir is no longer with the company.