Will Drayton | Director of Technical Viticulture and Research Winemaking at Treasury Wine Estates (TWE)
Ray Isle | Executive Wine Editor, Food & Wine and Author, “The World in a Wineglass”
Margarita Postoronca | Viticulturist and Grower Relations at CHANDON
Margarita oversees viticulture for 650 acres of the CHANDON Estate Vineyards. Her responsibilities include, but are not limited to creating fertilization programs, creating and distributing irrigation work orders, creating and overseeing pesticide spray program (both organic and conventional), maintaining and leading sustainability certifications.
Andrea Robinson, MS | Master Sommelier
Morgan Twain-Peterson, MW | Owner & Winemaker at Bedrock Wine Co.
Morgan’s early exposure to wine and winemaking was thanks to his father Joel Peterson, who had started a small passion project called Ravenswood Winery— a job for which he was steadily not making money while working out of a small building along the big curve on Broadway. Though always enamored with the wine industry, Morgan bypassed a traditional Viticulture and Enology degree and studied History and Political Science at Vassar College. After undergrad, he enrolled at Columbia University with an eye towards a Masters in American Studies. meanwhile working at a small shop in the Upper East Side called Pet Wines. There, he met Chris Cottrell, with whom he became fast friends.
Dr. Monika Weiss | Co-Founder of ergSol
Monika is an environmental pioneer and management consultant with extensive national and international experience in helping people and organizations turn potential to success. She has a strong background in collaborative leadership in cross-cultural, multi-industry environments and public-private consortium. As an experienced project manager and change agent she is committed to developing sustainable organizations. Her skills include: finding organizational forms to fit the tasks of innovating a new technology; preparing the infrastructure and raising the public awareness for product commercialization; valuing diversity to create synergy. Monika’s work focus is on sustainable business strategies and renewable technologies, especially in the solar thermal realm. She holds a M.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology.
