Fine Wines from the Central Coast of California and around the world
Randy Miller returned to California's Central Coast after working in the San Francisco Bay area. He has in excess of 27 years of sales and marketing experience at the executive level. In 1998 he decided to raise his daughter in a small town and settled in Templeton, CA, even though he continued to work out of the area. Randy has worked with Fortune 1000 companies and exquisite wineries enabling him to create a unique business model that has proven very successful. Randy is very active at work and away from work, with surfing, his horses, golf and a teenage daughter. randy@agingvines.com
Danielle McKee
Canadian-born Danielle McKee, moved to Los Angeles, CA to further her music career in 2003, after touring with Nelly Furtado as her backup singer. Soon after, she began to cultivate another passion – a passion for wine! After numerous trips to some of California’s alluring wine regions, Danielle decided it was time to take her affair with vino to the next level and enroll in a sommelier training program. It was around that time that she chose to pursue a career in wine and joined the Aging Vines team. She lives and works in LA, bringing boutique wines of wine country to the city. danielle@agingvines.com
Valerie Gregory
Valerie Gregory attends California Polytechnic University, majoring in Recreation and Tourism Administration. She was born and raised in Paso Robles, CA, and over the years was able to see the wine industry flourish in her small town. For the past nine years she has worked in the customer service and hospitality industries. Her concentration at Cal Poly is in Tourism Management and event planning and she uses her skills to help plan and coordinate the charity events that Aging Vines organizes. Although she has never perused graphic design as a career she enjoys using her creative ability to design flyers for events. When she is not at work or at school she enjoys playing tennis, cooking gourmet foods, playing with her dog and watching movies. valerie@agingvines.com
Kay Merg
Kay Merg is the Account Manager serving San Diego and Orange County for Aging Vines. She is responsible for world class customer service and sales of premium wine to the Company's client restaurants, wine shops and chains and specialty grocery stores. Kay came to the wine business after spending 19 years in Commercial and Residential Real Estate Management and Sales, where she held a multitude of upper level management positions. Her latest position having been Senior Account Manager for Interactivate, a San Diego-based Marketing and Advertising Company. Kay recently worked with a local San Diego County winery in tasting room sales and special winery events. She also conducts wine education seminars throughout the Southern California area.
Kay is a passionate community leader who devotes much of her time working with Navy volunteer charity organizations. She is on the board of directors for the Naval Officers' Spouses' Club of San Diego.
Kay holds a Mass Communications and Textiles-Clothing degree from North Dakota State University. kay@agingvines.com
Mike Traidman
After more than 25 years in Corporate Management, Mike Traidman joined Aging Vines to further pursue his passion for fine wines. Mike is originally from New York but spent most of his adult life in the Midwest. He and his wife Sally recently moved from Michigan where they raised their two boys in the Palm Springs, CA area. There, Mike enjoys golf and tennis year long. Mike is looking forward to broadening the Aging Vines group of boutique wineries distribution to the Inland Empire and the Coachella Valley, as well as help Randy with their national accounts; management. mike@agingvines.com
Bob Edmonds
Bob Edmonds grew up in southern CA in Manhattan Beach, attended Mira Costa High School and then pursued his education at El
Camino College. He started his sales career selling boats, later moving to northern CA to sell swimming pools. He returned to Manhattan Beach and opened an agency for the Wisconsin Life Insurance Co where he recruited and trained salesmen for the life insurance business. It was then when he decided to study for the Real Estate business. He moved to San Luis Obispo in 1983 and continued successfully in Real Estate for approximately14 years. When the real estate market slowed to a screeching halt in 1993, he moved to the pharmaceutical industry and sold drugs until retirement in 2002. He then started Specialty Food Services, LLC in 2003 and placed food kiosks in front of Home Depots and Lowe's until 2008.
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Oh yeah, I'm happy, healthy, fit and love to party ! ! ! Keith comes to Aging Vines with over 17 years of sales experience. He has worked for major retailers and has managed sales teams for major companies in the corporate sales arena. Keith has a passion for traveling the world and has visited 15 different countries on 3 continents. Keith is an avid sports fan and loves Football and Motorsports. He brings his love for wine and his sales experience to the Temecula Valley to represent Aging Vines in the Inland Empire and Orange county. keith@agingvines.com
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