Gibbons can be stepping down this month, after serving for 4 years as a WSET trustee.
Grant Meikle, who holds the WSET Stage 4 Diploma in Wines & Spirits, mentioned: “The formal {qualifications} WSET provides present a pathway for expertise within the wine and spirits business to develop and grow to be the following technology of consultants. I’m an alumna myself and know first-hand how the assets offered are invaluable to people and companies alike.”
Grant Meikle has spent greater than twenty years within the wine and spirits enterprise, after seven years at Matthew Clark the place she started in gross sales and ended up as wine vary controller, she joined William Grant & Sons UK in 2011 as head of on premise technique, to then grow to be director of status.
Grant Meikle moved to the corporate’s US operation as business technique director, then changing into regional supervisor for the State of Illinois. Now again within the UK and dealing for the corporate’s procurement group, she is a champion of ladies within the spirits business, serving to to shift the notion that whisky is a person’s drink.
WSET chief government Michelle Brampton mentioned: “I want to thank Allen for his necessary contribution during the last 4 years. I’m more than happy to welcome Kirsten to the WSET Board of Trustees. Kirsten has beneficial abilities and expertise to convey to the desk, particularly in serving to us to reinforce our understanding of the spirits business, develop the attain of our spirits {qualifications} and assist us to form our organisation for the longer term.”
WSET’s Board of Trustees is chaired by Simon McMurtrie, its different members are Miles Beale, Lulie Halstead, Dan Jago, Jo Locke MW, Jo Thornton and Sukhinder Singh.
