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Rebecca Hopkins

Founder & CEO

A Balanced Glass

Rebecca Hopkins is an experienced wine communications strategist, speaker, moderator, host and writer. With a 25-year career in the wine business spanning Australia and the U.S., Rebecca founded and launched A Balanced Glass in March 2018 with a mission to provide education  and  resources  to  industry  colleagues  to  help  maintain  health  and  wellbeing  while  working  in  the  beverage  alcohol  industry. 

Raised in the premium wine region of McLaren Vale, South Australia, and a graduate of wine business from the University of Adelaide, Rebecca spent 15 years in the Australian wine industry in various sales, marketing, distribution and communication roles.  In 2007 she joined Hardy Wine Company (now Constellation Brands) as Group  Public  Relations  Manager  overseeing  global  corporate communications, public relations,  media  operations,  hospitality  and  events  before relocating to San Francisco in 2007 to lead Constellation’s U.S. wine communications.

At Constellation she lead the largest in-house brand communications and event marketing team in the U.S. wine business managing brand publicity programming and event marketing and leveraging strategic relationships across wine, culinary, luxury and lifestyle media.

In 2012 Rebecca returned to family winemaking, joining national importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, owned by the Michael Mondavi Family, as Vice President Communications & Partner. In this role Rebecca leads the communications strategy and programming for the 20+ family-owned producers who share a national marketing and sales presence in the US market.

The inaugural Australian Student Winner of the "Vin de Champagne Award" given by the Champagne region's governing body, Rebecca has moderated and presented panels at Women of the Vine & Spirits, VinItaly International,  and Wine2Wine IT, been a guest speaker at Sonoma State University, and University of Bologna, and her work has been published in Meininger’s Wine Business International magazine and Wine Business Monthly (AU).

Cathy Huyghe

Co-Founder and CEO of Enolytics

Cathy Huyghe is a dynamic media professional with a special interest in wine and the spirit of hospitality. She is also an effective, engaging public speaker on subjects ranging from wine and gastronomy to digital media and entrepreneurship.

Cathy is the co-founder and CEO of Enolytics, a big data startup providing business intelligence for the wine industry. She also currently writes for Forbes.com about the business and politics of the wine industry, and for Inc.com about entrepreneurs with a special focus on women. She is the author of the award-winning book Hungry for Wine: Seeing the World through the Lens of a Wine Glass; she was a finalist for the 2016 IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year award; and she won the 2016 Innovator of the Year award from Diaz Communications.

Cathy's writing has appeared in print and online for both general-interest and wine industry publications including the Harvard Business Review network, The Atlantic, Decanter, Food52.com (where she was the "Wine, Unfussed" columnist), DailyBeast, The Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, GlobalPost, Grist.org, and Daily Candy. She has also been featured on the BBC, WNYC, WGBH, and Nevada Public Radio.

Cathy is the founder of 365daysofwine.com and Red White Boston, a digital media company for the wine industry. Red White Boston produced daily content, monthly tasting events, and a location-based iPhone app of video wine recommendations from their network of 30+ local partner stores. While in Boston, she also managed the wine cellar at WGBH public broadcasting station and managed wine events for donors and the public.

Cathy’s restaurant experience started when she knocked on the kitchen door at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. She also has worked for Jean-Pierre Vigato in Paris (at Natachef bistro and at his two-star restaurant, Apicius) and for Thomas Keller at Bouchon in Las Vegas. She studied at La Varenne École de Cuisine in Burgundy, France; she completed the Wine Studies program at Boston University; and she received Advanced Certification from WSET (Wine and Spirits Education Trust). 

Cathy received a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard in 2004 and a second master’s degree in Journalism in 2010, also from Harvard. Before that, she received a master’s degree in comparative literature from the City University of New York in 1998 and a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in 1995. She is also a trained mediator, and worked for two years at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School on a project in the Middle East.

In April 2008 she founded the Harvard Alumni in Wine and Food special interest group, which provides educational and networking services to the Harvard alumni and current students. She has also served as the President of the Harvard Club of Georgia, and she has begun a term of service on the Board of Directors for the Harvard Alumni Association.

Her other non-profit involvement includes the Women's Solidarity Society at the new National Center for Civil & Human Rights (Atlanta), grant reviewer for the Food Well Alliance (an Atlanta-based organization that supports the local network of 350 urban farms and community gardens), Coach at GOTR (Girls on the Run) in Atlanta, Board Member at the Greening Youth Foundation (Atlanta), Board Member at The Food Project (Boston), and Mediator at the Neighborhood Justice Center (Las Vegas).