Sergio Esposito
Sergio Esposito is a director of Italian Wine Merchant
Holdings. With more than 20 years of experience in
the world of Italian wine, Sergio Esposito is recognized
by industry insiders as the premier Italian wine consultant
in the United States.
In 1999, Esposito founded Italian Wine Merchants
in New York City. And as one of the directors of IWMH,
Esposito continues to lead the store in raising the
profile of Italian wine in this country and influencing
both colleagues and collectors with cutting-edge selections
and services. Journalists, writers, and wine enthusiasts
regularly consult with him, and he is frequently featured
in The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, The International Herald Tribune,
Wine Spectator, Food & Wine, and SmartMoney.
Esposito spends three months of the year in Italy,
where he meets with producers, tastes new vintages,
and brokers the sale of wines. He travels around the
United States monthly, giving lectures and presenting
tastings. Esposito is also the author of Passion
on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in
the Heart of Italy. The colorful narrative,
takes the reader on an illuminating exploration of
Esposito’s native land and its remarkable vintners.
Perry Porricelli
Perry Porricelli is currently the president of Italian
Wine Merchants. While sales constituted Perry's primary
focus for several years, recently he has undertaken
a more supervisory role, dedicated to safeguarding
the fundamental tenets of IWM. It is Perry's ultimate
desire to ensure that IWM's identity does not alter,
no matter how dramatic its physical growth or expansion
into various segments of the wine industry and beyond.
Perry has been with IWM since inception in 1999,
his foundation is rooted in the financial services
industry beginning at Elms Capital Management, a private
investment group. Perry moved on to Salomon Brothers,
where he specialized in securities, serving as the
primary liaison between the US trading desk and both
England and Japan. Thus, on an almost intuitive basis,
he began shaping the design that would inform his
personal engagement with wine, which began with a
French wine import company in New York City.
Jorge Mora
Jorge has over 15 years of experience in Private Equity
Investments and Investment Banking. Most recently,
Jorge was a Managing Director in the Financial Sponsors
& Leveraged Finance Group of UBS. Since joining
UBS in 2001, Jorge was the lead banker in over 75
transactions. Jorge began his investment banking career
at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 1993. From
1997 to 2001 Jorge was a Managing Director with The
Exxel Group, the largest Private Equity firm in Latin
America at the time. Mr. Mora has a B.A. from The
University of Miami in Entrepreneurship, and an MBA
in Finance from The Wharton School of Business. He
also completed graduate courses in International Economics
at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies. Jorge is a member of the Phillips Academy,
Andover Financial Aid Task Force, and a founding member
of Friends of Andover Athletics.
Daniel M. Holtz
Daniel has served as Managing Principal of Walden
Capital Management, LLC, a Miami-based financial services
company specializing in leveraged real estate financing
for development projects since its inception in February
1998. Daniel is also Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer of a number of private investment
entities. Previously, Daniel served as Managing Partner
of Crescent Heights, Inc., a national residential
developer of condominium buildings in urban markets
throughout the United States, and Chairman, Chief
Executive Officer, and President of Capital Bancorp,
a Florida-based financial services company with over
$2 billion in assets. Daniel has also served in the
capacity of President and Chief Operating Officer
of Capital Bank, and Executive Vice President of Capital
Bank's Retail Banking Division. Daniel has served
as a Director of Prestige Cruise International since
2003 and of Verifier Capital Holdings since 2008.
He also holds an undergraduate degree from the University
of Florida.
Gustavo Adolfo Hernández Frieri
Gustavo is Principal for Global Securities Advisors,
LLC, an asset management firm. In parallel, Gustavo
acts as Director for Millesime Compagnie Financiere,
a Geneva-based multi-family office and as Director
for Global Strategic Investments, LLC, a Miami-based
broker-dealer with affiliated entities throughout
Latin America. Gustavo was Chair of Political Economy
at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá,
Colombia, and led consulting mandates and research
programs. Gustavo is a Ph.D. candidate and holds a
M.S. from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris,
France, in Economics & Political Science. He also
holds a J.D. from the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá,
Colombia.
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