Vic Motto

Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Global Wine Partners LLC

Vic specializes in wine industry mergers and acquisitions.  He is also involved in winery and vineyard financing and in managing wine investments.  

Vic’s clients include many of the top wine businesses around the world, including several major international wine companies.

Vic also serves as a Director or advisor to several wine industry trade groups and universities, and is a Director on the Boards of several wine companies. He actively teaches, writes and speaks on the wine industry and is widely quoted in major media.

Prior to founding MKF Wine Business Advisors in 1982, he was an executive with an international management-consulting firm, and was previously in the retail wine trade as a wine buyer.

• Chairman of the Board:  Global Wine Partners LLC
• Founder and Director: Wine Business Center
• Director: 3 private wine companies
• Director, Inertia Beverage Group advisory board
• International Wine Investment Fund, Investment Committee
• Director, MKF Frank Rimerman & Co. Advisory Board
• Founder, MKF Research LLC
• Founding Director: Coalition for Free Trade
• Founding Director: American Wine Alliance for Research and Education
• Director: Copia: American Center for Wine Food and the Arts Initial Advisory Board
• Sonoma State University Wine Business Education Steering Committee
• Wine Institute Communications Committee
• Advisor to the California Senate Select Committee on the Wine Industry
• Advisor to the Board, Napa Vintners Association 1983-2000

PHONE: +1 (707) 967-5315
EMAIL: vmotto@globalwinebank.com    •    Vcard