PETER NEVIN, FOUNDER

After college (University of San Francisco Computer Science), Peter Nevin worked in San Francisco's Financial District as a consulting software engineer throughout the 1980s. A wide range of technical experience and crossing over into multiple industries, Peter developed his entrepreneurial spirit and his passion for problem solving in the field of experts systems. The early 90s brought the internet and most of his consulting at this time was designing internet based on-line benefit enrollment systems used by many Silicon Valley hi-tech companies.

As a hobbyist wine enthusiast, Peter wanted to expand his knowledge into the wine industry. In 1995 Peter interviewed for a contract software engineering position with Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards and it turned out to be a great opportunity. The goal was to build a winery-wide enterprise system from grape treatments to account management; this was quite a challenge at the time as the industry was void of software solutions. Peter first cut his teeth by working with wine industry maverick Brice Cutrer Jones, the Founder of Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards. Nevin was hired after several attempts by Jones to get the information he needed to truly control the penetration and placements Sonoma-Cutrer with Information Technology, it was a match made in heaven. Peter's no-nonsense approach to Sonoma-Cutrer's distribution system coupled with his technological expertise quickly righted a ship that had a direction but no navigation tools.

In the subsequent years, Nevin proved himself as a force within the wine industry, creating the systems that an eighty-thousand to one-twenty-thousand case winery needed to grow grapes, press fruit, analyze juice, bottle wine and then place the wine in the top restaurants across America.

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