Antonio Galloni is the brilliant mind behind Vinous, one of the world’s most influential wine publications. In 2016 Vinous acquired Delectable and Banquet. Known as the “Instagram of wine,” Delectable has been downloaded over a million times and has over 120,000 monthly loyal, unique users. Delectable’s sister app, Banquet, allows users to easily locate and purchase wines. Collectively, the apps enable consumers to scan a label, post a review and purchase. The Vinous concept marks a new stage in Antonio Galloni's decade-long career as one of the world's top wine critics.

Previously Galloni was lead critic at Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate, where he covered the wines of California, Italy, Burgundy and Champagne. Galloni spearheaded the production of The Wine Advocate's video content, engineered numerous public events (including many charity events) and managed the world's most successful bulletin board on Italian wines. In 2004, while a graduate student at MIT, Galloni founded Piedmont Report, the first specialist English-language journal focused on Italian wine. In 2014, Galloni paired with Stephen Tanzer, whose International Wine Cellar publication has now been incorporated into Vinous.

Barry Enderwick is a Consumer Branding and Performance Marketing Expert and Thought Leader. Skilled at leveraging consumer insights to create persuasive marketing strategies that increase customer adoption, reduce customer churn, and drive topline revenue via strategic, brand-centric market share growth.

Barry was part of the team that grew Netflix from a small startup in 2001 to an international, 26-million user brand in 2012. While creating a loyal and high performing team dedicated to the visual identity of the entire brand at Netflix, he led the global customer acquisition and conversion efforts in the US, Canada, Latam, UK, and Ireland. Focusing on the customer experience or “being the voice of the consumer”, he relied on brand marketing including digital, social and traditional media to provide powerful data-backed insights.

After Netflix, Barry moved on to co-found Kaizen Creative Partnership where he remained as a partner until 2017. Kaizen Creative Partnership helped companies including MZ, Texture, jet.com, Gametime, Lynda.com and 99designes grow through thoughtful, strategic foundation of brand positioning based on consumer research and its translation into marketing messaging. Barry became the Vice President of Brand, Marketing and Communications at MZ (Machine Zone Inc.) where he remained for a year. Barry currently serves as a Principal for BWE Consulting and is an Advisory Board Member at BWG Strategy LLC.

Felix Puetsch is the head of analytics at Foursquare and an analytics and data science consultant. Felix uses data to create actionable insights and efficient and goal-oriented processes and tech roadmaps. As a data-driven leader, Felix has a reputation for building high-performing teams who identify and implement sustainable change by combining analytics, data science, operations, social media and strategy.

Felix began his professional career at Accenture in 2003 where he performed ad-hoc analyses and data migrations among other responsibilities in product and team development. After his stint at accenture, Felix consulted in IT Strategy with Capgemini before moving on Corporate Development with T-Mobile where he later became the Director of Corporate Strategy and Analytics. Felix eventually left T-Mobile to be the CEO of FetchIt where he was responsible for product and shareholder management along with market and consumer research and analytics.

Felix has also served as the Director of Data Science at the W2O Group where Felix used his team of data scientist to push the boundaries of social network analytics. His other responsibilities included performing sales statistics using muti-variate linear modeling and decision forests and spearheading new algorithms while identifying machine-learning opportunities.

Felix obtained his Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees from the University of Cologne.

Lauren just recently joined Land O’Lakes in the role of director of marketing analytics after having worked as the digital analytics leader at HealthPartners. Prior to that, she was the Senior director of analytics and insights at W2O group. She honed her skills in market research and social media at several respected Minneapolis-based companies, including Jostens and Capella Education Company. She has proven track experience in developing and continually helps provide recommendations and accurate consumer insights.

Her in-house experience further developed her understanding of how to utilize multiple methodologies to analyze the influence of services and products. She has a proven track record of leveraging tangible insights to provide recommendations that result in effective marketing campaigns.

Andrew Kamphuis is the Founder and President of Commerce7, a customer centric DTC commerce platform designed for the alcohol industry. Andrew and his team have developed a modern, easy-to-use platform that is changing wineries’ uses of CRM, data, and the way the wine industry understands and interacts with the modern consumer. Commerce7, within its first year, has been implemented by companies including Opus One and Constellation with a reach to over 92 countries. The new platform brings companies into the future with features that allow consumers to use current technologies to pay (ApplePay, GooglePay, AliPay, etc.), wineries to control their clubs effectively and efficiently, and more.

After founding and serving as CEO of K1 Technology, Andrew, in April of 2008 founded Vin65. In 2012, Andrew sold Vin65 to WineDirect where he remained as President and COO. At WineDirect, Andrew was responsible for technology development and the integration of WineDirect’s full suite of services. During his period at WineDirect, Andrew bootstrapped the company and grew it to provide ecommerce and POS to over 1500 wineries with over $800 million in sales. Andrew has defined, created and delivered best-in-class commerce and fulfillment product offerings.
He has held the position of VP of Ecommerce, CTO, COO and President.
Mr. Kamphuis holds a business degree from Simon Fraser University.

As an East Coast native, Daniel's passion for the food & wine industry began while he was working for restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area, which led to his attendance at the Culinary Institute of of America in New York. After graduating, Daniel joined the Food & Beverage Management team for the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, also acting as their on-site Sommelier.

Wanting to take his passion for food & beverage further, Daniel diversified his technology skill set within big data, payments, and various merchant applications. Daniel has worked with multiple companies within the restaurant technology space, including Omnivore, WePay and Presto, and has helped thousands of merchants improve their technology stack to further optimize their operations with cutting-edge software and focused strategy.

Ken is a digital marketer and technologist with a keen understanding of how technology can drive business results. With over 18 years of online marketing & advertising experience, including a deep background in digital and social media, he is considered a nationally recognized expert in the digital marketing space.

Ken drives strategic thinking and ideation based on in-depth digital knowledge and analytics; guides development and application of new media tools and technology to gain consumer insights; and integrates talent, technology and capabilities to optimize use of digital channels creating game-changing solutions that build and grow clients’ business.

Ken has held digital leadership positions at Ernst & Young and Digitas and has worked with some of the biggest names in marketing, including American Express, Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, General Motors, Chevrolet, Delta Airlines, Walgreens, MillerCoors, Pfizer, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Postal Service.

He also recently coauthored the book book Digital Marketing Analytics: Making Sense of Consumer Data in a Digital World. http://bit.ly/UF4qKi

Nolan Gasser is a critically acclaimed composer, pianist, and musicologist – most notably, the architect of Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project and the company’s chief musicologist from its founding in 1999. He also lectures widely at various public and private forums on the nature of musical taste and the intersection of music and science.