Our Team

A global team of experts

We are headquartered in the UK with global offices in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US to support the unique needs of our clients around the world.

Hong Kong office

Hong Kong

1001B-2, Kinwick Centre
32 Hollywood Road
Central
Hong Kong

Telephone: +852 2818 0899

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A highly experienced and mature wine market, Hong Kong is Asia’s fine wine trading hub and the place we started our overseas expansion in 2016. Since then, the Greater China market has continued to grow, and we’ve thrived thanks to our exemplary expertise and service. Looking into the future, we’ll continue to perfect our offer to consolidate our position in a region of utmost global importance.

Joe Alim

Director of Greater China

Hong Kong

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Katrina Lee

Senior Fine Wine Advisor

Hong Kong

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Issac Ho

Senior Trade Sales Manager – China

Hong Kong

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Mengyan Zhu

Fine Wine Advisor

Shanghai

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Key people

Regional Directors

Our directors leverage their extensive backgrounds in the wine and financial industries to lead key regions for the company.

Jonathan Stevenson

Executive Vice President, North America

New York

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Daniel Ward

Director of UAE

Dubai

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Carrie Tuck

Chief Marketing Officer, Americas

Toronto

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Atul Tiwari

Chief Executive Officer, Americas

Toronto

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Marcus Allen

Director of EMEA

London

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Nicolas Monroy

Director of Southeast Asia

Singapore

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Atul Tiwari

Chief Executive Officer, Americas

Toronto

As Chief Executive Officer, Atul Tiwari leads the team and is responsible for the overall strategy and development of Cult Wines Americas. Hailed by Investment Executive as ‘having a knack for knowing what’s next’, Atul is thrilled to have successfully married his extensive investment experience with a passion for wine to introduce this unique asset class to the Americas market. Atul leads with investment rigor, excellent client relationships and unparalleled knowledge of the asset class. Atul’s background speaks for itself, before building Cult Wines Americas, he was employee number one at Vanguard Canada. As CEO for the company, together with his team, he helped pioneer ETF investing in Canada and grew the company from $3 to $30 billion in assets over 7.5 years.

Prior to Vanguard, he held progressively senior positions at BMO Financial including senior vice president of BMO Asset Management, heading up the BMO US mutual fund business in Chicago before going on to lead the charge for BMO to enter the ETF business as the founding President of BMO Exchange Traded Funds. In addition to his personal interest in wine, Atul has also managed a 4,000-bottle cellar of fine Burgundy for the Toronto Chapter of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin over a five-year period. After earning his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada), he began his career in law, practicing in London (UK) and Toronto (Canada) before transitioning to finance.

Favourite Wine: Atul loves and knows Burgundy very well, but he also enjoys Bordeaux and Italian wine.

Product & Technology

The Product & Technology department is the data-driven heart of our company and the team behind our proprietary statistical models we rely on to build well performing portfolios.

Jody Richardson

Director of Digital Innovation

London

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Corey Parkinson

Global Head of Product

London

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Dmitry Selemir

Head of Data Science

London

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Investment Management

With a great deal of financial experience and understanding of the global economy, our Investment Management team is responsible for ensuring we provide a significant level of investment expertise to clients across the globe.

Olivier Staub

Chief Investment Officer

London

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Yijun (Lena) Lu

Portfolio Manager

London

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Neil Thorne

EMEA Portfolio Manager

London

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Customer Experience

Our Customer Experience team are dedicated to making your fine wine investment journey as rewarding as possible. By better understanding our customers they seek to optimise the experience through improving services and providing a range of first-class offerings.

Olivia Bodle

Global Head of Events

London

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Taryn De Luca

Global Head of Customer Experience

London

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Wine & Operations

Our business is founded on finding great wines and looking after them obsessively. Our Wine and Operations team combine flair and experience to deliver this year in year out.

Andrea Marino

Senior Fine Wine Buyer

London

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Hermione Egerton-Smith

Senior Fine Wine Buyer

London

About Hermione

Tom Turner

Trading & Operations Director

London

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Senior Management & Advisors

Our senior management team and advisors are drawn from a diverse array of backgrounds, bringing strength and depth to the business. Their extensive knowledge of wine, finance, or business, guides Cult Wines’ strategy and approach.

Kaz Takabatake

Commercial Director, APAC

Singapore

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Gemma Castle

Chief Financial Officer

London

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Oakley Walters

Chief Marketing Officer

London

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Aarash Ghatineh

Chief Revenue Officer

London

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Patrick Thornton-Smith

Chief Customer Experience Officer & CSR Lead

London

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Harry Wake

Advisor

London

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Brad Goldberg

Advisor

New York

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Olivier Staub

Chief Investment Officer

London

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Founders

At the foundation of Cult Wines are Phil’s extensive financial and wine knowledge and Tom’s natural flair for the business. Cult Wines redefines fine wine investment – an asset rooted in tradition and passion meets modern investment standards built around transparency, fairness and simplicity.

Tom Gearing

Co-Founder & CEO

London

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Philip Gearing

Co-Founder & Chairman

London

About Philip

Tom Gearing

Co-Founder & CEO

London

As CEO, Tom Gearing oversees the company’s overall strategy, global operations and technology innovation, which has distinguished Cult Wines from its competitors as an industry leader. Tom has grown Cult Wines from a burgeoning start-up to an award-winning global company with over £265 million assets under management and more than 100 employees in six offices across the United Kingdom, North America, and Asia Pacific. Under his direction, the company has been named to the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 in 2015 and again in 2017, the SME Export Track 100 in 2016 and 2017 and the International Track 200 in 2018 and 2019.

Tom cultivated a passion for fine wine in his formative years, learning first-hand from his father who led numerous wine companies throughout his childhood. Tom spent a significant amount of time travelling with his father to the Cote d’Or, visiting vineyards and studying Bordeaux from the ground up, where he developed a keen interest in business and a bold vision for the future of fine wine. Tom’s expertise, entrepreneurship and innovative mind have been widely regarded and he is regularly quoted in the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade and the Spear’s 500. Tom holds a WSET Level 3 Award in Wines and graduated from Nottingham University with a BA in History.

Favourite Wine: Whilst Tom’s wine preferences often see him focussed on chardonnay and pinot noir, he likes to try as many different styles and grape varieties as possible. His most memorable vinous experiences to date are Petrus ’61 en Magnum, Liger Belair La Romanee ’09 and Domaine Leroy, Richebourg ’03.

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We’ve been doing it for more than a decade.

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