Emerge Consulting

Transforming small to medium-sized vineyards and wineries across the US and Europe by implementing cutting-edge technology solutions. Our tailored approach has led to a 30% increase in operational efficiency and a significant reduction in manual processes, empowering wineries to make data-driven decisions and enhance customer relationships.

Unlike typical consultants who push proprietary solutions, Emerge Consulting is vendor-agnostic, ensuring we only recommend and implement the best-fit technology solutions for your winery’s unique challenges and growth goals.

Founder

ENOCARE

We are an Italy-based Wine & Spirits logistics provider, dedicated to helping wine importers and distributors streamline their import processes. Our services allow them to concentrate on their core strength: delivering exceptional products to their customers.

Business Development 

FINE+RARE

Responsible to significantly improve service globally 

Designed comprehensive global logistic strategy for F+R

Globally leading the Supply Chain side of merger + acquisition integration into the business, by executing the integration plan through a number of cross functional teams and within local markets.

Global Service Director

Project lead for the  implementation and integration of SAPB1, Hubspot and proprietary software.

Senior Consultant 

Liberty Global

Major accomplishments ; 

Reduced the annual Supply Chain spend YOY by 5%-7% as a result of outsourcing key-activities (Warehousing & Test & Repair )and continuous improvement

As part of the Global Logistics Team develope& implemented a 5-year Supply Chain Strategy for CEE leading to further cost savings and improved customer experience

Re-organized the Supply Chain in the CEE region to streamline and improve the organization

Director of Supply Chain of Central Europe region

Major accomplishments ; 
Setup and transformed the entire E2E Supply Chain including outsourcing key-activities to 3rd parties including in-country refurbish & repair operations

Digitally transform the Supply Chain by implementing an E2E system which led to cost reduction (YOY 4%-6%) and improved customer experience across the DTH footprint

Implemented a robust S&OP process across the DTH footprint which led to a 20% reduction in inventory turns

Director of Supply Chain & Procurement at UPC DTH of CEE region

Sanmina-SCI

Developed a thorough understanding of key clients' needs and requirements and preparing customized solutions.
Negotiated contracts with key clients and meeting established deadlines for the fulfillment of each client's long-term goal
Successfully positioned the test & repair business in the market (world-wide) and grew the business consistently within 3-years of implementation.
In this role, world-wide responsible for all Telecom customers managed to exceed their expectations which led to  business growth

Global Account Manager

Managed business activities focusing on the financial and strategic growth of the organization.
Responsible for setting up a repair & warehouse facility for Sanmina-SCI in Hungary for customers like IBM, Nokia, Alcatel, and Philips.
Post-implementation managed the business unit and improved and developed processes, people (200), and led an IT implementation resulting in better efficiencies, quality, and happier customers.

Business Unit Manager Repair Center

UPS Supply Chain Solutions

Developed a 3 year Strategic Plan for UPC SCS in Hungary in close cooperation with UPS parcels
P&L responsible for the Supply Chain arm of UPS parcels in Hungary by offering customers Logistics services such as warehousing, airfreight and sea freight.
Coordinated, developed, and managed staff, projects, sales and build the brand within Hungary

Country Manager

Maersk Line, Limited

Put together a 3-year commercial and strategy plan for the business 
Successfully developed the business for the Supply Chain arm of Maersk in France by growing the business 12% YoY.
Responsible for developing and managing 20 large multinationals in the FMCG sector including leading French companies such as Auchan, Decathlon, Kiabi, and La Redoute.

Supply Chain Manager at Maersk Logistics France

P&L responsible for the business of Maersk Logistics in Hungary
Jointly with the Managing Director of Maersk developed a 2-year strategy for the business
Successfully implemented Logistics Services such as Distribution, Airfreight, and Seafreight groupage for Maersk customers

Country Manager at Maersk Logistics Hungary

Nutricia

Strategic Distribution Manager

Distribution Center Manager

For many winery owners, the idea of switching to new technology can be intimidating. You don’t want to lose the traditional way of doing things, and that’s completely understandable.

But today, technology isn’t just a support—it’s become an essential part of running a successful winery. It helps automate everyday tasks so you have more time to focus on what matters most: creating great wine. 

Here’s how you can start:

	1.	Think about where you’re spending the most time: Is it manually writing down orders, 
                 organizing customer contacts, or checking your stock levels? That’s a good place to start.

	2.	Pick user-friendly tools: Look for tools that don’t need a lot of training, like simple software to 
                manage sales or apps to track your barrels.

	3.	Experiment with one task: Start with just one thing—maybe a digital order system—and see how 
                it improves your day.

	4.	Get your team involved: Let them try the new tools at their own pace and show them how it 
                 makes their job easier.

You don’t need to overhaul everything. A few small changes can make a big difference, without losing the heart of your winery.

Jim de Jager

WineFi 🍷

- Building tools and real-time dashboards critical for back-of-house team and client base to provide market-leading insights and guide investment decisions.
- Modelling, we have our sights set on being the market leader in predictive modelling for fine wine prices and returns. Leveraging our industry-leading data, our models will enhance the Investment Committee's decision-making process with an additional layer of insight.
- Data collection and management, accountable for the systematic gathering and management of data for analysis, reporting, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), predictive modelling, and strategic planning.
- Responsible for the transformation and analysis of complex data sets to bring actionable insights that drive strategic business decisions.

Head of Data and Analytics | Founding Team

General Assembly

- Full-time data science certification with 480 instructional hours.
- Engaging in over 30 labs and projects covering relational databases, machine learning models, regression modelling, Naive Bayes, NLP, bagging and boosting, RandomForests, SVMs.
- SQL, web scraping and neural networks.
- Statistical analysis, clustering, supervised and unsupervised learning.
- Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau and Plotly.
- 6 projects completed.

Data Science Immersive Fellow

- Freelance Data Scientist / Quantitative Analyst with a focus on time-series forecasting of financial assets.
- Building production grade models, applications and dashboards to satisfy business needs. 
- Advocating the use of AI, Machine Learning and cutting edge MLOps technology to level-up businesses.
- RAG pipelines and data engineering for Data Science and AI.

Data Scientist

Daniel Department Store

- Forecasting hierarchical sales and stock levels for £18m+ revenue store to decide budgeting and appropriate buying strategy.
-Identifying and overseeing new technology implementations: unit-stock control, cloud-based property management software and HR systems.
- Implemented the company's first unit-stock-control system, involving significant data manipulation of over 300,000 distinct products and trained 50+ employees on new processes. The system now manages millions of products across more than 40 departments.
- Responsible for maintaining and analysing long-term sales/revenue data by department and buyer.
- Project Manager for department moves and renovations from space design to budgeting, scheduling, quality control and merchandising.
- Buyer and Manager for £500,000 turnover Sports/Fitness Department.
- In charge of the process for hiring senior employees and ensuring their success once hired.

Head Of Business Development (Data & Innovations)

Property Department Responsibilities: 
- Introduced and implemented a new cloud-based property management database (Re-leased), to digitise the property portfolio for 140 tenancies across 5 companies. 
- This database facilitated remote invoicing, accounting, reporting and tenancy management and moved the department closer to a paper-less workplace.
- Used Excel and Google Sheets to create and maintain the cost/investment accounts for multiple development projects.
- Assist with managing relationships with tenants, contractors and local authorities for a mixed portfolio of over 70 commercial, residential and office premises.
- Designed spreadsheets to semi-automate utilities billing and calculation. 

Retail Responsibilities: 
- Central in digitisation projects to modernise the business including introduction of unit stock control and Slack company wide. 
- Set up the new Sports & Fitness department - the first department with complete digital stock management.
- Helped with the company's increased focus on e-commerce, social media and online marketing www.danielstores.co.uk.
- Designed and project managed a new Menswear Shoe area. 
- Driving force behind new pop-up store initiative, supporting local businesses and brands while they test their ideas in a busy retail space.

Data and Innovations Manager

Self Employed

Full-Time musician singer songwriter. Released 3 singles and two music videos; performed solo gigs at various venues including, including Glastonbury Festival, Ingido2 & live BBC radio.

Musician

Duff & Phelps

I spent 3 months working for Duff and Phelps in the Mergers and Acquisitions division, Central London:
- Worked in buy-side research, producing comprehensive company profiles for clients and MDs, particularly in technology and aerospace & defence sectors.
- Used Microsoft Excel to create an auto-updating M&A ledger - detailing transaction information, sizes and multiples.
- Carried out extensive market research into the booming short-term rental market. 
- Attended buy-side and sell-side client meetings.
- Had the responsibility of creating pitch briefings detailing condensed client and firm information.

Mergers and Acquisitions Analyst

GCW Retail Property Consultants

Work Experience

A data scientist and quantitative analyst with a background in property investment, retail and wine investment. I have enjoyed managing projects that use technology to improve businesses. 

Technical Skills: 
Data Analysis & Machine Learning: SQL, Python, R, Pandas, Numpy, Scikitlearn, regression modelling, KNN, NLP, Keras, Tensorflow, unsupervised learning and forecast modelling. 
Data Engineering: AWS, lambda, stepfunctions, Docker.
Data Visualisation & Applications: Tableau, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Streamlit, Plotly

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