Moderator:
Christophe Macra MW is a native of Reims and an expert in web-based collaborative communications. With a background in business consultancy, he became a Master of Wine in 2008 and now runs Esensio, a consulting firm with a wine trade focus, and Tasteo, which specialises in wine education.

Panel

Rowan Gormley is the founder of Naked Wines, a group of 20,000 wine lovers which has created a £5m fund to sponsor independent winemakers. He previously founded Virgin Wines and Virgin Money.

Eric LeVine spent nearly 13 years with Microsoft before founding cellartracker.com in 2003. It is now the leading online cellar management application with more than 100,000 collectors tracking nearly 20m bottles of wine. With 1.5m reviews online, it is one of the largest wine databases in the world.

Mike Linton is an award-winning marketing professional with almost 30 years of experience. He was Chief Marketing officer at Best Buy and at eBay. Today he consults, writes for Forbes.com, is a Director of Peet’s Coffee & Tea, and serves on the advisory board of venture capital companies.

Jancis Robinson MW became the first non-trade Master of Wine in 1984 and commands an unparalleled international reputation as a wine writer, TV presenter and judge. She is editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, co-author of the World Atlas of Wine and writes daily for jancisrobinson.com.

MW Symposium – 25 June 2010 – Session 2 – Wine on the Web from Masters of Wine on Vimeo.