Steve is a seasoned executive with regional, national and international experience in real estate development, manufacturing and the wine industry. He helps guide Atelier Cascadia clients with overall strategic direction as well as operational, administrative and financial planning.

Steve began his career in the wine industry in Napa Valley more than 30 years ago before moving to the Walla Walla Valley to develop and build an estate vineyard and winery, Delmas and SJR Vineyard. Steve has blended business savvy with entrepreneurial creativity to help multiple winery projects chart their strategic direction forward.

Over the past decade, Steve spearheaded the petition and approval of one of the Northwest’s more renowned AVAs, The Rocks District of Milton-Freewater. He also founded an association of growers and producers focused on promoting and marketing the appellation. Steve served on the Oregon Wine Board’s Strategic Planning Committee and received the organization’s Industry Leadership Award in 2020.

Boxwood is a design studio offering architecture services that bring an innovative, original style to the wine industry. Boxwood approaches each wine industry project through the lens of collaboration and creativity to achieve a client-specific response.

The company’s wine industry practice is led by partner Karlin Bungartz, who believe architecture, like winemaking, is a unique combination of art and science. This guiding principle, tempered with practical sensibility and driven by creative energy, has helped Boxwood design some of the wine industry’s most memorable projects.

A partial list of clients includes, Avennia, Rocky Pond, Echo Ridge Cellars, L’Ecole No. 41, Valdemar Estates, Montinore Estate.

For more information about former Boxwood principal Joe Chauncey’s branding and package design, click here.

Bob has worked with some of the Pacific Northwest’s most recognizable tourism, hospitality and wine brands. He provides Atelier Cascadia clients with public relations and marketing communications services that meet the demands of an ever-shifting communications landscape of traditional and social media.

In addition to working with premier Northwest wineries such as Avennia, Liminal, and Reynvaan, he developed and implemented PR campaigns for the Washington Wine Commission, the marketing association for Washington State’s $5 billion wine industry, and regional wine associations such as Wine Yakima Valley and the Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance.

Over the past 20 years, Taylor has launched and built brands for wineries in Washington, Oregon, and California. Her experience spans strategic planning, portfolio development, and sales and marketing strategy for emerging, legacy, and luxury wineries.

Taylor spent nearly 10 years at Crimson Wine Group, leading brand and marketing initiatives for Pine Ridge Vineyards before relocating from Napa to Seattle to become Director of Marketing for Crimson’s Pacific Northwest business. In this role, she led positioning, branding, and portfolio development for wineries including Archery Summit, Double Canyon, and Seven Hills Winery.

Prior to joining Crimson, Taylor served in various marketing and brand development roles for Francis Ford Coppola Winery, Rubicon Estate, and LVMH’s Domaine Chandon and Newton Vineyard in Napa, California.

METIS is the leading wine industry M&A advisory firm in the Pacific Northwest, with offices in both Oregon and Washington. The team at METIS has over 50 years of combined wine industry experience and over 100 years of combined finance and professional services experience. In addition to both buy-side and sell-side advisory services, METIS provides a wide range of strategic planning and financial modeling services to the industry.

For more information:  www.metisnw.com

VinTerra Consulting provides vineyard site selection and evaluation services and terroir marketing content for clients throughout the Pacific Northwest.

VinTerra is led by Dr. Kevin Pogue, a professor of geology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Dr. Pogue is an acknowledged expert on wine terroir and is sought-after for his expertise in geology, geography, climate and soils as they relate to the wine industry. Dr. Pogue has been profiled in The New York Times, authored the petition for The Rocks District of Milton-Freewater AVA, and speaks regularly on terroir at regional, national, and international conferences

For more information:  www.vinterra.net

Brooke Delmas Robertson has world-class, hands-on experience as a Viticulturist in the Napa Valley, Australia and Walla Walla Valley, while administering “best practices” and tending to the high expectations of iconic vineyards and wineries.

Working with the exacting requirements of Torbreck, Hundred Acre, Barbour, Hayne, Seven Stones, The Napa Valley Reserve and SJR Vineyard, Brooke has gained considerable development and farming experience with all manner of viticultural ideologies, rootstock/clone combinations and trellis systems.  She holds a Qualified Applicator License for pesticide use in the state of California and has supported viticulture research for Cal Poly while working towards her Master’s degree.

For more information:  www.delmaswines.com

Billo Naravane, MW is the owner and winemaker of Rasa Vineyards, an artisanal winery in Walla Walla, and provides consulting winemaking and viticulture services for clients such as Delmas, Echo Ridge Cellars, Mackey Vineyards, Rivaura, and Sinclair Estate Vineyards. He attended UC Davis where he earned an MS in Viticulture and Enology. Billo received his Master of Wine in 2017.  In addition to his winemaking and vineyard responsibilities, Billo works as an Adjunct Professor at Washington State University.

Prior to making the transition to the wine industry, Billo worked as a manager and consultant in the technology industry for companies such as Oracle, Netscape and Hewlett Packard. He studied mathematics and computer science at MIT and electrical engineering at Stanford University and is incredibly thankful that he hasn’t written a line of code in approximately 10 years.

For more information:  www.rasavineyards.com