Reed Renaudin - Winemaker & CEO
Reed Renaudin has been involved in the wine industry since 1996. He founded Amicus & X Winery in 2001 and has helped guide this start up company’s rapid growth. Reed has an MBA from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a BS from UC Davis. He has also completed extensive graduate research in Enology at UC Davis, and has presented his works at the American Society of Enology and Viticulture’s annual meeting. His resume is highlighted with viticulture experience working for Gallo of Sonoma, and enology experience working for Napa Valley wineries including Heitz and Cuvaison. Reed also has winemaking experience with Cape Clairault Wines in Australia. He continues to be an avid, but with age progressively less daring, snowboarder and wakeboarder, who also enjoys softball and basketball. He lives in Napa with his wife Erin, his beautiful new daughter Tate, and a house full of pets.
Bruce Cunningham - Director of Sales
Bruce has been involved in the wine industry since 1987. He started in the Australian wine packaging supply business after graduating from business school and working in retail management in Sydney. This segment of the business also included representing many French cooperages and glass suppliers, working directly with the winemakers across the country. He then spent several years visiting various European wine regions before returning to Adelaide to undertake the Wine Marketing degree at University of Adelaide (graduating in 1995). Bruce relocated to New York in 1996 to help launch the McGuigan Wines brand in the USA. In 2000, he joined the renowned Australian wine importer, Old Bridge Cellars, as National Sales Director, until the business was sold in 2003. In 2004, Bruce relocated to California where he then consulted to various Australian wine companies, including another renowned Australian wine specialist, Epicurean Wines, to help build their sales & distribution platform. Bruce finds his “outside work” interests focusing on cycling and skiing (why else live in California??) and staying very close to his much loved BBQ, though also has a love for sea-kayaking and sailing. Bruce lives in the Bay Area with Kimberly (Australia’s best export!) and their daughter Savannah.
George Keatinge - Sales Manager
George, unlike most, is a man of great variety of traits. Originating from a farm “down under”, George spent most of his schooling career and earlier childhood years in Sydney . Following school, George spent a couple of years working and travelling overseas as well as running many different operations in Australia. His addiction to the wine industry started in 2005 where he undertook a Wine Marketing Degree at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Then George worked with various retailers and wineries (Peter Lehmann Wines & Clovely Estates) gaining valuable experience in both Wine making and Marketing/Sales. His enthusiasm and ‘charisma’ is attributed to the passion for wine, as well his enjoyment in dealing with people on a daily basis. In George’s free time he likes all sports, socializing and learning about new and engaging events/pastimes. On a finishing note George states “As a young Aussie Citizen, the enjoyment and satisfaction of working in a young dynamic winery in the USA, such as X, is nothing short than a rewarding opportunity”.
Christine Adams - Marketing Manager
Christine has worked in the wine industry for nearly eight years, holding various position with Napa based wineries. Recently, she was involved in the sales and marketing efforts for a large Lodi winery-Ironstone Vineyards. In 2004, she worked with a successful Australian wine importer, Old Bridge Cellars, as Operations Assistant. Her passion for wine stems from her family’s involvement in the Napa rootstock business. Christine spends her free time hiking, camping, snowboarding, wakeboarding and skeet shooting. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband Andrew and their big, beautiful chocolate Lab Coco.
Gina Richmond - Assistant Winemaker
Gina Richmond has been working in wineries since her first vintage at the Fresno State Winery in 2001. She graduated with an enology degree from Fresno State in 2004. Gina is very grateful for the knowledge she obtained by working many hours in the university’s winery and helping with wine events. She then went on to work harvests at Spring Mountain Winery in St Helena California and Trinity Hill Winery in Hawke’s Bay New Zealand. At Trinity Hill she was lucky to meet her husband George. Back in the US she ran the custom crush program at Hall Winery and got to learn many different winemaking styles through her diverse clientele. George and Gina enjoy many outdoor activities and working on their home winemaking project in the Suisun Valley AVA.
Maureen Cyrot Theunissen - Operations Manager
Maureen Theunissen spent 10 years in Corporate America after graduation from UC Berkeley. She gained experience in online marketing, application project management and business process development at her previous jobs with Sapient, Providian, Franklin Templeton and Clorox. She joined X Winery in October of 2004 to indulge in her passion for wine (and bring her skills and knowledge to the winery.) Outside of work, she loves skiing, cycling, wine tasting and catching up on her reading which includes piles of books on history, science fiction and everything in between. She lives in the Napa Valley with her husband Cobus and her two sons, Daniel and Colin.
Coben Alexander - Office Manager
Coben is in his rookie year with X Winery and the wine industry in general. Since his graduation in 2005 from UC Berkeley he has become a jack of all trades and a master of none from production with Fox Sports West, operations for a Minor League Baseball team and finally Sales and Marketing with Ticketmaster. His wine interest grew when traveling through Australia he got the opportunity to work at the Prince Wine Shop in Melbourne. Coben spends his free time running, participating in and watching a number of different sports, enjoying time with his family and friends and watching the Golden Bears roll on to victory on crisp fall Saturdays.
