April Cullom, Brand Ambassador

April’s special area of expertise is food and wine marketing; she has cultivated hundreds of contacts in the elite wine trade, and maintains working relationships with sommeliers, wine educators, retailers, distributors and importers in the top U.S. markets. Spain has been a particular passion and focus for April since 1986, when she completed a study abroad at Madrid’s Complutense University while doing her B. A. in Business and Spanish at Florida’s Stetson University. She returned to Spain in 1988, working as a strategic marketing consultant for global consumer products including T-Mobile (Germany), Corning Ware (USA), and Disney Consumer Products (Europe).

April leverages her years of International Marketing experience and combines it with her in-depth food and wine industry expertise to promote her Spanish clients’ brands.

Among April’s many accomplishments in the Spanish category:

• Certified Spanish Wine Educator (The Wine Academy of Spain)
• WSET Intermediate & Advanced certificates (honorable mention)
• Recognized Spain Specialist by the Office of Tourism of Spain
• Over 20 years of working with Spain and Spanish clients
• Fluent in Spanish

In August 2009 April was named the U.S. Brand Ambassador for D.O. Ribera del Duero, and travels nationally to educate consumer, trade and media groups about the region.

April can be contacted at april@drinkriberawine.com