Dr. Perry grew up in a fruit orchard operation in the Santa Clara Valley of California and received his BS in Fruit Science at Cal Poly and a Masters and PhD in Horticulture at Texas A&M. While at Texas A&M, he focused on viticulture where he identified wine grape growing regions, conducted grape variety and rootstock trials and studied root dynamics of Vitis. His work began at MSU in 1980 where he focused on rootstocks, soils and high density systems for tree fruit.
Dr. Carl P. Borchgrevink has a Ph.D. in Communication from Michigan State University, an MS in Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Administration from the University of Massachusetts, a Norwegian undergraduate degree from the Norwegian Hotel School, a culinary degree from Oslo Vocational School, and has a Norwegian Chef's Certificate (Kokkefagbrev).