Rick Bakas is the Director of Social Media Marketing at St. Supéry Winery in Napa Valley. In this role, Rick is responsible for managing St. Supéry’s brands using social media.

Rick spent eight years at NIKE creating and managing brands. He was the first person to be hired at NIKE by submitting an interactive resume and portfolio on a floppy disk. He was a key member of the branding teams responsible for the NFL’s Denver Broncos and New York Giants, as well as the University of Oregon Ducks where he was the lead designer on the rebranding team.

In 2008, Rick introduced the concept of "social branding" where personal brands and corporate brands would share a level playing field in social media, at the same time utilizing some of the same strategies.

Michael Becker is Vice President of Mobile Strategy at iLoop Mobile, Inc. a leading mobile marketing solutions and service provider to the top brands, agencies, content publishers and enterprises worldwide. He is the Mobile Marketing Association Global and North American Vice Chairperson, co-chairs the award winning MMA Academic Outreach Committee and founded and co-edits the award winning MMA International Journal of Mobile Marketing. In addition to his industry and volunteer roles, he has authored over 60 other articles on mobile marketing and co-authored and contributed to five books on mobile marketing. Mr. Becker was awarded the MMA Individual Achievement Award in 2007.

Jeremy Benson is founder and president of Benson Marketing Group LLC, a leading wine marketing agency providing Public Relations, Direct Marketing, Digital Media and Brand Consulting services to wine and spirits marketers. Founded in 1997, the agency’s offices are in Napa, New York City, and an affiliate in La Rioja. Its clients are located in California and Washington, as well as Italy, France, Spain, New Zealand, Argentina and Australia.

Benson’s background includes brand management, communications and export sales for domestic and global wines and spirits companies. He is the Marketing Lecturer at the University of California, Davis Wine Executive program, and contributes to industry groups including Free the Grapes!, Auction Napa Valley and the Direct to Consumer Symposium, among others.

Benson resides in Napa, California and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a BA from Occidental College, both in Los Angeles.

Steve Bowden has been developing strategies, systems and analytical tools to predict and influence consumer behavior for more nearly 20 years.

Steve began his wine industry career in 2000 leading database marketing efforts for Robert Mondavi and eventually took on responsibility for all Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) activities for the corporation’s 10+ brands.  Key achievements included developing comprehensive direct-branding and direct-selling strategies, engineering a sophisticated data mart for analysis, developing models to predict product preferences & customer attrition, increasing wine club & e-commerce revenue, increasing opt-in email addresses for loyalty programs, managing all consumer-direct communication via email, direct mail and web, and conducting qualitative and quantitative consumer research.

Steve, a native of Overland Park, Kansas, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Kansas State University and an MBA from the University of Kansas.

Steve Bowden
707-694-9647
steve@oldvinemarketing.com
www.oldvinemarketing.com

Laina Brown
President, Black Stallion Winery

Laina Brown is the President of Black Stallion Winery. One of Napa Valley’s newest wineries, Black Stallion Winery sells all of its wine directly from the winery and through the website. Laina began working with Black Stallion Winery as a business consultant in 2006 to develop the business model and initial marketing plan. She took over as President just prior to the launch of the winery in 2007.

Prior to joining Black Stallion Winery Laina worked as a business consultant working with several wineries throughout the Napa Valley to enhance brand identity and develop direct sales markets through marketing and business plans, web development, and tasting room design.

Laina Brown started her career in the wine industry as Marketing Director for Intervine, Inc., a Napa-based wine importer and distributor specializing in the airline and cruise line industries. She went on to join Domaine Carneros by Taittinger as the Wine Club Director and Marketing Director Winery Programs before taking on the role of Hospitality Director. Laina also had the unique opportunity to work with the initial wine.com as a Wine Buyer for the company’s BTB division where she learned the power of building brands through direct customer relationships and opening direct channels.

Laina Brown
Phone: 707-253-1400
E-Mail: lbrown@blackstallionwinery.com
www.blackstallionwinery.com

Dennis Cakebread graduated from UC Berkeley in 1975, attended graduate school at what is now UCEB and started his working career doing bank and savings and loan audits. After receiving his CPA license he left public accounting and went to work for one of his clients in the savings and loan industry as a controller. He ended his banking career as an EVP/CFO before starting work at his family winery in January 1987.

Now a co-owner and responsible as SVP Sales and Marketing for Cakebread Cellars he has been active in industry associations and issues for many years. He is a past president and past board member for the Napa Valley Vintners, a past president and past board member for the Wine Service Coop, past co-chair of Auction Napa Valley, and a past board member for Family Winemakers of California. He is currently a board member of Wine Institute, FreetheGrapes and the Treasurer and board member of the Coalition for Free Trade. He is one of the founders of the Direct to Consumer Symposium in California which was first held on May 1, 2008. He has two children and says the two years spent as president of the St Helena Little League was one of his most challenging and rewarding experiences.

Donna Campbell
Consultant, Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty

Donna Campbell is a consultant with Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty as well. Retired from CA ABC with over 20 years experience. Donna worked in the Santa Rosa and San Francisco offices of ABC. Donna also worked in ABC headquarters in Sacramento in the Business Practices Unit dealing mainly with the manufacturing and wholesale industry trade practice issues.

Hospitality Director at Rodney Strong Wine Estates 12/2006 to present
Director of eCommerce and Club business at Brown-Forman Wines 2004 - 2006
Director of Operations/ Visitors Centers at Fetzer Vineyards/Brown-Forman Wines 1999 - 2004
Hospitality Director, Fetzer Vineyards 1989-1999

Jason Eckenroth
CEO & Founder, ShipCompliant

Jason Eckenroth is an entrepreneur and software executive who has harnessed his technology background to create automated compliance solutions for the wine industry, making the highly-regulated landscape easier to navigate. 

In 2003, he saw a need for wineries to overcome the complexity of entering the consumer-direct market. He founded ShipCompliant to help wineries simplify compliance and lower the barriers of entry for direct sales.  Through established relationships with numerous wine advocacy groups like the Wine Institute and more than 40 technology providers, ShipCompliant stays in front of industry changes to offer innovative compliance solutions. 

He is a member of numerous technology and wine industry associations and remains committed to working on behalf of the wine industry to realize the full potential of the direct and wholesale channels in a profitable and compliant manner.

Jason Eckenroth
Phone: 303-996-2342
E-Mail: Jason@shipcompliant.com

Clay Gregory has more than 25 years of marketing and management experience in multiple industries, building consensus and developing outstanding programs with a wide variety of partners across many fields. He is currently the President and CEO of the Napa Valley Destination Council, whose mission is to protect and enhance The Napa Valley's position as North America’s legendary wine, food and wellness capital.

Prior to his current role, Gregory served as President of Jackson Family Wines, a collection consisting of more than a dozen independently operated wineries and brands in prestigious California and international winegrowing regions in St. Emilion, Chianti, Australia and Chile.
Gregory was responsible for all marketing, winemaking, vineyard and general management of the various wineries within Jackson Family Wines.

In 2003, Gregory was President of the Napa Valley Vintners and the Napa Valley Wine Auction. He served previously as President of the Oakville Winegrowers. He is the current President of the Board of Directors of Napa Humane and serves on the Board of Directors of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at UC Davis.

Gregory’s role with the NVV was preceded by his position of Vice President and General Manager of Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley, California. Clay’s diverse responsibilities over his fourteen year tenure at RMW included managing all winemaking, vineyard, marketing and visitor programs operations. In addition to his managerial duties, he oversaw the strategic direction of the winery, including the To Kalon Project, the first significant renovation and enhancement to the Winery since its construction in 1966. 

Prior to his stint at Robert Mondavi, Gregory spent more than six years at Motorola, Inc., in Cupertino, California as a Marketing Manager for the company’s Computer Systems division.

Born in Manhattan Beach, California, Gregory grew up in northern California. He received his undergraduate and MBA degrees from San Jose State University, with a concentration in Marketing.

Clay Gregory
707 226-5813 ex110
Clay@LegendaryNapaValley.com 
www.LegendaryNapaValley.com

Steve Gross is Director of State Relations at Wine Institute, where he has been employed since 1986. Steve’s duties entail overseeing the activities of Wine Institute’s six State Relations Regional Counsels as they address state legislation affecting the wine industry, as well as coordinating Wine Institute’s legislative and regulatory activities with staff, contract lobbyists and member wineries.

Steve regularly participates in many national programs dealing with issues facing the wine industry, both on the legislative and regulatory levels. Steve serves on the Board of Directors of both Sustainable Conservation and the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance (CCEEB). He also serves on the Sonoma State University Wine Business Program Executive Advisory Board. A native of Nebraska, Steve brought to Wine Institute knowledge garnered during his ten years of employment in the on-sale food and beverage industry, as well as extensive experience in political campaigns and legislative activism.

Craig has more than 22 years experience as a visionary, entrepreneur and manager. Prior to founding Apisphere, he held positions as President/CTO at Lilien Systems were he was responsible for growing company revenues 375% over four years.

Craig was the CTO and a member of the founding executive team at Avasta (now Navisite). While at Avasta, Craig was named one of the Top 50 IT Executives at xSPs InfoWorld magazine. An author of over 50 papers he has completed the Channel Elite MBA Program at Babson College in Boston, MA., has an honorary Masters Degree in Information Technology Management from Cornwall University, and BS degrees in Quantitative Economics & Decision Science and Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Nadira A. Hira (pronounced Na-DEER-ah HEAR-ah) is a general assignment writer at Fortune, covering topics related to Generation Y, the fastest growing segment of the American workforce. She speaks on how to creatively engage Generation Y as important contributors to corporate culture and productivity, on racial and generational diversity, and on the role of social networks in the modern workplace. She authored Fortune’s widely discussed 2007 cover story on Gen Yers and their impact on corporate America. Hira has appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, ABC’s America’s Black Forum, as well as CNN, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, and BBC-A.

Christopher Huber brings more than two and a half decades of hospitality industry sales and operations to his role of Direct Sales Manager at Cakebread Cellars, where he delights in being part of the highly regarded Cakebread Cellars team. Prior to leading the Cakebread Cellars direct sales team Christopher ran his own hospitality consulting business for 7 years, before which he spent 10 years with Marriott International in a variety of property and regional leadership roles. An early interest in food and restaurant operations led him to the School of Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management at Michigan State University, where he received his B.A.

Born and raised in Michigan, he moved to San Francisco after graduating in 1986 and now lives in Healdsburg with his wife, Lia, and 2 year-old daughter, Noemi. Christopher is as passionate about hospitality, food, travel and living with his family in wine country as he is about fine wine.

Bob Kelso
V.P. Consumer Sales and Hospitality, Cline Cellars/Jacuzzi Family Vineyards

Bob is a native Californian who has been enjoying wine for his entire adult life but has only worked in the wine business for the past seventeen years. Bob grew up in the Paso Robles area when the area was known for wheat and almonds and there were only three wineries.

After time in the US Army and at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo he spent 30 plus years with Pacific Gas and Electric Company retiring in 1993.

So began the journey that brought him through the hospitality trenches of the wine industry from Sebastiani Vineyards to Folie a Deux to his current position at Cline Cellars and Jacuzzi Family Vineyards. He manages two tasting rooms with their associated wine clubs and their related e-commerce sites.

Bob and his wife Karen have four children and six grandchildren and reside in the city of Napa.

Bob Kelso
E-Mail: bkelso@clinecellars.com
Phone: 707-940-4031

Dan Lintz
CEO, VinoVisit.com

Dan is CEO of VinoVisit.com, a winery search engine for visitors to search, select and book tasting event reservations instantly with post visit outreach tools for wineries.

Prior to VinoVisit.com Dan brought his business innovation acumen to Crushpad winery, an online winemaking and commercial branding innovator.  There he grew the online commercial business unit from a beta program to over 100 online winery stores with 350 new wine SKU’s in less than two years.

Lintz’s background includes two decades of Internet technology management with CEO roles at 4 online software companies.  Global Secure Systems serving the Department of Homeland Security with online Bio Terrorism alerting and response applications protects more than 70% of the US population.  As an early innovator in the ecommerce market adding the “DOT Com” to UPS developing the first UPS shipping ecommerce application.

He has also served as a technology innovation consultant to the Governors office, State of California, and the California Commission on Internet Safety.  Dan developed his interest in wine business as an amateur winemaker. 

Dan Lintz
Phone: 888-252-8990
E-Mail: Dan@VinoVisit.com
www.vinovisit.com
twitter: @VinoVisitcom

Michael Mann was employed by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for over two decades. He retired as the District Administrator in charge of the Department's Santa Rosa Office. In that capicty, Michael was responsible for five Northern California Counties, which included Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Marin, and Mendocino Counties. This geographical area accounts for over 50% of the state's wine manufacturing and wholesaling industry. In years past, Michael was also the District Administrator in charge of the Department's San Francisco Office. He was then responsible for both San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, dealing mainly with the retail industry.

Michal has worked in every sworn field capacity with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. He has worked closely with local and state law enforcement and community organizations. He has participiated in the legislative process on numerous occasions addressing issues with the ever changing alcoholic beverage industry. Michal has assisted with many of the large acquisitions and mergers in the manufacturing, wholesale and retail industries. He has followed many of the industry's trends during his prior career and has worked with the industry and its representatives to achieve common ground.

Michael offers over two decades of institutional knowledge of the ever changing and complex alcoholoic beverage industry in California. He also offers a regulatory prospective for assured compliance with the existing laws and rules of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

Michael Mann
Phone: 707-524-7000
E-Mail: mmann@dpf-law.com
www.dpf-law.com

Adam Metz
Principal, Metz Consulting

Adam Metz is the Principal at Metz Consulting, a management-consulting firm that teaches brands how to acquire, manage, monetize and retain customers.

He specializes in social technology change management, social customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning system integrations for awesome consumer brands and loves lifestyle, travel, apparel and consumer-packaged goods (CPG) companies.

Metz Consulting's team of strategy associates completes social web strategies and assists clients with market research, product development, business development and strategic alliance development.

Recent clients include Hershey's Chocolate, The San Francisco Convention & Visitor's Bureau, Mighty Leaf Tea, a top-thirty winery, a major pet food brand, Passport Hotels, Hollywood Park Racetrack, and three top international apparel brands.

Metz is the first consultant in the space to devise a holistic social web analytics model for clients, and his first book, There Is No Secret Sauce [link: http://tinyurl.com/metzbook], has sold or downloaded over 2800 copies. He is currently at work on a second book for a major publisher, Dance On A Volcano.

Adam Metz
Phone: 888.565.METZ
Email: adam@adammetz.com
www.adammetz.com
http://www.metzconsulting.com

Cheryl Murphy Durzy
VP Sales & Marketing, Clos LaChance Winery

Cheryl Murphy Durzy is Bill and Brenda’s oldest daughter.  She has been working alongside her parents for over 10 years, having spent the early part of her career in high-tech public relations. Cheryl is responsible for Clos LaChance's sales throughout all channels, including wholesale, wine club, tasting room and the Internet.
In addition, Cheryl manages marketing for the brand and the other business units (Events, CK Vines and Bay Area Bottling).  She sits on several industry boards, including the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association and Free the Grapes!. In December 2008, Cheryl took and passed with Merit the Advanced Certificate level of the Wine and Spirits Education Trust. She plans to take the Diploma level in the near future.

Cheryl Murphy Durzy
Phone: 408- 686-1050
Email: cheryl@clos.com
www.clos.com

Heidi Paul is co-founder of Freerun Technologies, Inc. Paul and co-founder, Frank Forbes, established Freerun Technologies, Inc. in March of 1993. Paul has more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience in the high-tech industry including senior positions with AT&T, Southwestern Bell, and Memorex Telex.

Prior to establishing Freerun Technologies, Inc. Paul was the Channel Director for IPL, a computer hardware company. With a passion for her community, Heidi Paul has served on a variety of boards including being President of the Napa Valley Conference and Visitor's Bureau Board of Directors (prior name of the Napa Valley Destination Council).

Currently she is enjoying active participation with the Diablo Valley Chapter of WPO, Women’s Presidents Organization. She also supports and encourages corporate sponsorship for various charities and philanthropic art endeavors including the Napa Valley Mustard Festival. Napa Valley Symphony, Sonoma International Film Festival, Staglin Music Festival for Mental Health, Wine Women & Shoes.

Paul graduated Cum Laude from Oral Roberts University with a degree in Business Marketing. Paul enjoys travel, food, wine and the performing arts.

Vanessa Robledo
President & Partner, Black Coyote Chateau

Vanessa Robledo, fourth generation grape grower in Napa & Sonoma, has accomplished quite a bit in her young life. She picked grapes in the field as a child, went on to become President of her family’s winery, launched her own consulting company, and has recently joined Black Coyote Chateau in Napa as President and Partner.
Under her stewardship, Robledo Family Winery grew from a tiny 100 case producer in 1997 to a very healthy and thriving business doing 20,000 cases a year in 2007. As the subject of dozens of feature stories and loads of radio and television appearances on everything from Univision to the Food Network Vanessa is an important voice in the wine industry. She has become the face of a new generation of Hispanics who are well educated, hard working and eager to spread the gospel about food and wine to anyone who will listen.

In October of 2008 Vanessa joined Black Coyote Chateau which produces 800 cases of Cabernet grown in one of Napa’s 15 prestigious appellations, Atlas Peak. Today she continues her family legacy in the wine industry getting involved in all aspects of the winery; farming, wine production management, local and national sales, marketing, public relations, legal compliance, and wine club development and management.

Others have recognized the work being done by Vanessa Robledo. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors honored her as the first district recipient of the Woman of Color Humanitarian Award in 2005. In 2006 she was awarded the Latino Business Leadership Award given to the most influential Hispanic leaders in the Bay Area. The North Bay Business Journal named her one of 2007’s leading young professionals. In 2008 Latina Style Magazine recognized Vanessa as Latina Entrepreneur of the Year.

Vanessa Robledo
Phone: 707-252-2292
Email: vanessa@blackcoyotewines.com
www.blackcoyotewines.com

Jeff Stevenson
Co-Founder, President  & CEO, Provino Premium Wines

Jeff Stevenson is the co-founder, President and CEO of Provino Premium Wines, a wine sales and services company.  Provino is one of the leading companies in Direct to Consumer telesales marketing, and bolsters a portfolio of some of the most respected brands in the wine business as its partners and customers.  Founded in 2007, Provino employs over 20 people and is located in Santa Rosa, CA.

Jeff plays in several bands in Sonoma County, including the Seven Zins (rock/funk) and L'Fiasco (New Orleans funk). He is the founder/co-president of the Porsche Racing Club and races his car whenever time permits.

A Napa Valley native, Steve Tamburelli has spent his entire life working in and around the wine industry, developing a passion for wine and a comprehensive knowledge of sales and marketing.

As a high school student, Steve began working for his family’s wine distribution business during summers and school holidays, a practice he continued throughout university. After earning a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Santa Clara, Steve joined the family business fulltime, where he broadened his understanding of the distributor’s perspective. Within three years Steve assumed the position of General Manager. In 1991, he purchased the business from his family. Over the next eight years, Steve consistently strengthened the business, increasing sales by 50 percent and acquiring a competing company.

After many prosperous years as a distributor, Steve found himself drawn to the winery side of the industry. In 1998, Steve sold his business and soon took a position as the Chief Operating Officer for Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, learning the intricacies of winery and vineyard business operations. In 2002, Steve joined Chappellet as Director of Finance, Sales & Marketing. Working alongside Cyril Chappellet, Steve leads the winery’s worldwide distribution and sales and marketing programs. During his tenure, Steve has greatly contributed to the winery’s success, building brand awareness, increasing sales, and expanding worldwide distribution networks for Chappellet’s highly allocated wines. 

Steve lives in the Napa Valley with his wife Lynne and son Bill.

Steve Tamburelli
707-286-4266
E-Mail: steve@chappellet.com
www.chappellet.com

Kristen Techel
Attorney, Hinman & Carmichael LLP

Kristen Techel is an attorney specializing exclusively in the area of alcoholic beverage law at the law firm Hinman & Carmichael LLP in San Francisco.

Kristen handles all aspects of alcohol law, with a particular focus on marketing, promotions, administrative hearings and trade practice issues. Representative clients include retailers such as Trader Joe’s and 7-Eleven as well as suppliers such as Kendall-Jackson.

 A native of Napa, Kristen grew up working the bottling line at a small winery in Coombsville.  She holds a J.D. from Boalt Hall at UC Berkeley and a B.A. from UCLA.

Kristen Techel
Phone: 415-362-1215
E-Mail: ktechel@beveragelaw.com
www.beveragelaw.com

Clark Z. Terry’s wine industry career began in the fall of 2006 when he worked as a cellar intern at Monticello Vineyards and Trefethen Family Vineyards. While at Trefethen, he authored a blog chronicling the day to day workings of a cellar rat.

Soon after finishing his internship at Trefethen, he started work at the retail store of Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, first handling shipping and stocking duties and then transferring to a full-time sales position.

Clark started and now manages the web presence of KLWM, authoring their blog, managing email marketing campaigns, administering social media accounts, and overseeing the development of a new website.

Clark grew up in Napa. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2005 with a BA in Music.

Paul Thienes
Founder & CEO, Missing Link Networks, Inc.

Paul Thienes has been developing innovative sales and marketing software for the wine industry, since 1997; His company's special focus has been on family wine brands producing less than 100,000 cases annually.

Paul holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from Hamline University and Masters in Business Communications from Graduate School of Business St. Thomas University, both in St. Paul, MN.

Paul's professional work life before Missing Link Networks, Inc. spans 10 years ranging from professional programming, major account sales and service at MCI Telecommunications, and design of large data and video conferencing networks for state government and Fortune 1000 corporations.

Paul enjoys cycling, lifting weights, flying, and motorcycling.  He lives in Calistoga, CA with his wife and two children.

Paul Thienes
Phone : 707-942-9700
Email: pault@missinglink.net
www.missinglink.net

Doug Wilder
Director, Commerce and Social Media, Martinelli Winery

In a two-decade career, Doug Wilder emerged as one of the most influential experts in the luxury domestic wine retail market embracing the latest innovations at every fork in the road.

After becoming one of the first retailers in America to write reviews and ratings on wines he offered to clients, he went on to work with two of the leading retailers first as Founding Director of Wine E-Commerce at St. Helena’s Dean & Deluca before joining Vinfolio, Inc. as their Founding Director of California Acquisitions and Sales creating the domestic wine program and writing over 200 issues featuring dozens of reviews and ratings on emerging wines. Additionally, he wrote the company’s first blog, ultimately influencing over 20000 members who subscribed to his content.

In 2008, he independently launched dougwilder-the purely domestic wine blog, (ranked #1 on Google for search ‘domestic wine review’) exclusively featuring early stage reviews on emerging wines from California, Oregon and Washington. It is the only blog of its kind. Hubspot.com ranks his Facebook profile of 4000+ friends in the top 0.3% of 43000 profiles they track.  His website, www.wildernapavalley.com includes guest blogs from some of California’s most talked about young winemakers.

Most recently as the first Director of Commerce and Social Media for Martinelli Winery, a renowned producer of Estate Grown wines in Russian River with over 125 years of family ownership, he is developing an integrated social media, web-based commerce environment with a state-of–the–art UI.

He resides in Calistoga and San Francisco with his wife.

Doug Wilder
Phone: 707-525-0570
Email: doug@martinelliwinery.com

Matt Wood
VP of Ambrosia, Marketplace and Direct to Trade, WTNServices

In 1994, Matt immigrated to California with his wife Elke and looked for opportunities within the wine industry. In 1997, he settled at Franciscan Estates starting as a tasting room assistant before moving into a management role overseeing the direct to consumer business. As the business transitioned to ownership by Constellation, the importance of consumer direct, and Matt’s role grew substantially.  After ten years with Icon Estates where Matt managed ten tasting rooms, multiple wine clubs and internet sites, he transitioned to a new role with 1-800 Flowers in July of 2008.

Matt’s new role is focused on developing the wine category for the 1-800 Flowers group of companies, including 1-800 Flowers, Plow and Hearth, Ambrosia and many others. In addition he is spearheading a new co-operative marketing model with wineries to leverage the 1-800 Flowers customer database.

E-Mail: mwood@winetasting.com