Huib E. Geerlings

HUIB E. GEERLINGS has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Geerlings & Wade, Inc., since June 1988 and has served as its President
and Chief Executive Officer since July 2002. In addition, from 1988 to
1995, he served as Geerlings & Wade’s Chief Executive Officer. From 1996
to February 2003 (active to November 2002), Mr. Geerlings served as
Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Verbind, Inc., a software
company that he founded. Mr. Geerlings received his undergraduate degree
and his Master’s in Business Administration from Erasmus University in
Rotterdam.