Vic Motto

Chairman, CEO and founder of Global Wine Partners LLC, the wine industry investment bank.
Global Wine Partners is the only investment bank devoted exclusively to the wine industry. The bank specializes in wine industry mergers and acquisitions, and manages wine investments, including its wine industry REIT.
Vic’s clients include many of the top wine businesses, 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 Global Wine Partners and its predecessor firm MKF Wine Business Advisors in 1982, he was an executive with a major international management-consulting firm and member of their U.S. national real estate team advising REIT’s and large scale real estate developers, and was previously in the retail wine trade as a manager and wine buyer for a large U.S. wine retail chain.