Charles Gill, Founder & CEO, WineMetrics

Charles is the founder and CEO of Winemetrics, LLC, which, for the past decade, has been the premier source of on-premise wine distribution information. Charles began his wine career after college with the Taylor Wine Company in Hammondsport, NY as a viticulturist and has spent the subsequent 30 years involved in wine production, sales, wine education, marketing and consulting. Prior to starting Winemetrics, Charles worked for Remy-Cointreau USA in sales and Schieffelin & Somerset Co.(a joint venture of Diageo and LVMH), where he spent 9 years in both sales and marketing. As a Brand Manager he launched Casa Lapostolle and established it as the #1 Chilean brand on-premise, where it remains to date. Promoted to Marketing Director at Schieffelin & Somerset Co., he created a comprehensive product knowledge website for the company's wine and spirits brands as well as a mobile system for gathering on-premise data and disseminating market intelligence. Charles resides in Fairfield, CT.