ORGANIZERS

FOUNDER

CHRAND EVENTS

CHRAND is an agency founded by former tennis professional and Olympic captain Pancho Campo. Organizers of world-class events for the last 30 years in over 20 countries, CHRAND has managed and produced concerts, sporting events, summits and conferences with some of the most important world leaders, celebrities and Nobel Prize winners including: US President Barack Obama, US Vice-President Al Gore, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, film director Francis Ford Coppola, Sting, Pink Floyd, Andre Agassi and Enrique Iglesias amongst other notables.

CO-ORGANIZERS

BALZAC COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING

Balzac’s mission is to make positive change in the wine and spirits sector, one client and event at a time. Leveraging 30 years of marketing and public relations experience, Balzac has built solutions and strategies that help their clients save time, decrease costs, build their brand, and sell their products faster. President Michael Wangbickler is a trusted advisor and strategic consultant to his clients. He believes leadership, imagination, and innovation require a certain level of fearlessness and he encourages his team to step off the worn pathways and break new ground.

DF CONSULTS

David Furer is an internationally recognized communicator, marketer, and event organizer working since 1991 with and in the world's most recognized and dispersed wine-producing locales. His news and opinion writings appear in US, British, and French drinks media outlets while he's authored and contributed to several wine books. Since 1998 he's developed and executed marketing projects for numerous US, European, and South American organizations; since 2003 created, organized, spoken at and hosted events in Asia, Europe, and his native US on topics including the climate crisis and the sociocultural origins of wine.

Jacques Lurton & Michel Rolland

Climate Change & Wine Summit

Barcelona, Spain

Gerard Bertrand

Climate Change & Wine Summit

Marbella, Spain