Dave Heffner

Chief Financial Officer Hayden Beverage Company

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Dave Heffner is Chief Financial Officer of Hayden Beverage Company, the Boise-based, family-owned distributor that carries beer, wine, Red Bull, non-alcoholic drinks and coffee across Idaho. He joined in December 2018 and is responsible for all of the company’s accounting and financial functions, working alongside owner and chairman Dodds Hayden and chief executive Andy Mitchell. He came to Hayden from Norco, Inc., where he was Corporate Controller, and is a Boise State University graduate whom the company describes as a licensed CPA.

Career Highlights

• Chief Financial Officer of Hayden Beverage Company, with responsibility for all of its accounting and financial functions.
• Joined Hayden Beverage in December 2018.
• Previously Corporate Controller at Norco, Inc., described by Hayden as one of the largest privately held industrial, safety and medical gas and equipment retailers in the United States.
• Graduate of Boise State University; described by his employer as a licensed CPA.

Professional Journey

Heffner was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and moved to Boise with his family in 1981. He studied at Boise State University and qualified as a CPA, according to his employer’s biography of him.

Before joining Hayden he was Corporate Controller at Norco, Inc., a privately held supplier of industrial, safety and medical gases and equipment. The length of that role is not documented in the sources reviewed.

He joined Hayden Beverage Company in December 2018. The business traces its roots to 1936, when a Boise grocery distributor added Olympia beer after Idaho repealed Prohibition. John Hayden was hired to run it in 1970, bought it outright in the mid-1970s and gave it his name; his son Dodds Hayden took over after John’s death in 2006. Over the following years the company formed a partnership with Young’s Market Company, a relationship that passed to RNDC when RNDC bought Young’s Market in 2020, and it expanded into Montana in 2018.

The shape of the business has changed during his time as CFO. In February 2026 Hayden sold its Montana business to another distributor to concentrate on Idaho, and in June 2026 it announced a letter of intent with Columbia Distributing, under which Columbia would buy a minority stake in Hayden and Hayden’s owners would take an indirect interest in Columbia, while Hayden remained independently run.

Education

Boise State University

Graduate; degree and field not stated in the sources reviewed.