Joel Vincent

Founder & Executive Director, OpenWine Consortium

Joel Vincent is the Founder and Executive Director of the OpenWine Consortium (the OWC), a global trade association whose mission is to partner technology with the wine industry to open new avenues of business and networking in the wine world. With over 1000 members and businesses among its membership, the OWC runs education and networking events around the globe and maintains the largest online social network dedicated to the wine industry. Prior to OWC, Joel led product marketing and management teams at Cisco, Meru Networks, Netgear, and Lucent where he has successfully brought over 65 products and services to market worldwide, garnering awards ranging from Comdex best-in-show to a nomination for a ComputerWorld Smithsonian award. He combines over 14 years of experience in the high-technology industry and a lifelong passion for wine with his degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to provide a practical technological voice to the wine and technology industries. Specialties: Product marketing for high technology companies. I focus purely on what it takes to move from a robust, extensible technology to high-value, business-changing solution.