SSWI employs a respected team of consultants tailored to the specific needs of your wine business.

David Campbell, Principal
Mr. Campbell has over 25 years of experience as a wine industry executive and marketing specialist. Mr. Campbell's expertise encompasses the areas of strategy, financial planning and asset management, marketing and distribution, organizational structure and export development.

Campbell's experience includes starting and running his own distributorship in Montreal, Le Marchand du Vin, holding the vice president and general manager position at Jekel Vineyards and working as export director for the Burgundian house of F. Chauvenet. Campbell then became CEO of Premium Port Wines, the importing arm of the Symington Family's Ports and Madeiras in the U.S. After 10 years with Premium Port Wines, he most recently was CEO of Clos du Val Winery in the Napa's Stag's Leap District. Campbell has worked in every significant wine market in the United States, Canada, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Europe.

Yuko Suzuki, Marketing Strategist
Ms. Suzuki is the president of Suzuki Marketing and VinAsia — both companies serving the Asia/Pacific wine market. Prior to this, she served as Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific at PeoplePC, and Director of International Brand Development at E&J Gallo Winery, the world’s largest winery.

While at Gallo, she led Gallo’s global branding efforts, as well as she was responsible for marketing and PR for Gallo’s Asia Pacific countries. She successfully grew Gallo’s Asian business; she contributed significantly to the Gallo’s 45% sales growth in Japan during her tenure by increasing the brand awareness and royalty with development and implementation of effective marketing and public relations programs, In addition, she was responsible for development and rejuvenation of Gallo’s global brands.

Prior to Gallo, Ms. Suzuki worked at the world headquarter of PepsiCo Foods International (currently, The Frito-Lay International) in Lay’s and Ruffles global branding, at Procter & Gamble in new product development, and at Recruit Co in corporate communication strategies and advertising.

Ms. Suzuki holds and MBA from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a BA in International Relations and Linguistics from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. She also studied at University of Lisbon, Portugal, and The University of Western Ontario, Canada. She was born and raised in Japan, with an extensive international experience both personally and professionally. Ms. Suzuki is fluent in Japanese, English and Portuguese.