Melissa likes wine.🍷 A lot. Lucky 🎰 for her she gets to work with wine for a living. Melissa serves the wine industry as a strategic brand, content, and go-to-market advisor dividing her time between Italy 🇮🇹 and Houston 🏙, freshly from New York City 🍎. She has been tasting her way to the 🔝 all while💡learning, guiding, elevating, and motivating individuals, teams, and clients alike in both the U.S. and Italy. Melissa also wears the hat of U.S Brand Manager for Bolé Wine, a range of Italian fizzy 🥂wines from Italy’s latest sparkling 🍾 wine denomination, Novebolle Romagna DOC Spumante. Surfacing brand value and equity for stakeholders makes her tick. 📈 She is the author of the forthcoming 📚 book, “Bianchista Forever: Drinking and Appreciating Italy’s White Wines.” Melissa proudly wears her Italian Wine Ambassador pin 🟢⚪️🔴 studiously earned from the Vinitaly International Academy (VIA) program in Verona, Italy. 😎 When not tasting or studying 👩‍💻 for the WSET Diploma, she can be found on long 🏃‍♀️ runs listening to her favorite wine podcasts. 🙋‍♀️ CLUBHOUSE INTENTIONS: Here foremost to listen, learn, and be of use; to discover new voices, creativity, energy, and vision in the space of wine; and offer insight, perspective, and deliver a point of view when called to the stage. — 📥 Email Me 📥 — [email protected] DMs always open ↙️ or ↘️ ‼️