A highly experienced global wine industry professional with an 20 year wine career spanning winemaking across 4 continents and 14 vintages, for all wine styles, and 7 years as an international wine buyer for some of the world’s largest and most influential retailers. A natural people leader, wine enthusiast and effective, passionate communicator with proven public speaking, hosting and education delivery skills.Demonstrated skills extend to organisational design, operations optimisation, transformation and change management, value creation, strategic sourcing, portfolio optimisation and gap analysis, wine style development and winemaking in all wine producing regions, private labels, bulk wine, market analysis, brand and packaging consultancy, NPD and innovative product creation, technical and operational efficiencies, quality control and assurance, auditing, winery design and R+D.A fully qualified winemaker also currently studying towards the Master of Wine qualification, stage 2 practical only.