Tom King of Treasury Wine Estates joins WSTA board

Tom King, managing director of Europe for Treasury Wine Estates (TWE), has joined the board of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA).

King joined TWE in 2013, firstly as commercial director global travel retail and then a year later as general manager. In 2015 King was also named general manager for the Central & Eastern European regions as well as for global on-premise, before being appointed managing director for Europe in early 2017.

Prior to this, King worked for five years working as an accountant at Ernst and Young, before moving to Bacardi as a commercial analyst, later becoming finance director of the company’s global travel retail business.

“It is a great privilege to be appointed to the WSTA board, especially at a time of such importance to the wine and spirits industry,” said King on his appointment to the WSTA board.

“We are faced with several key challenges and opportunities in the coming years and I look forward to helping the WSTA frame its engagement with government and the trade over this period, as well as contributing to the great work that the WSTA does for our industry.”

The WSTA represents more than 300 UK-based companies involved in the production, importation, transportation and selling of wines and spirits.

Also on the WSTA Board are:

• Dan Jago (Chairman) CEO of Berry Bros. & Rudd
• Miles Beale CEO of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association
• Troy Christensen CEO of Enotria Wine Cellars
• Diana Hunter CEO of Conviviality Retail Plc
• Charles Ireland Diageo’s General Manager GB
• David Mawer MD of JF Hillebrand UK
• Huw Pennell European Regional MD Edrington
• Pierpaolo Petrassi Head of buying – beers, wines, spirits – Waitrose
• Laurent Pillet MD Pernod Ricard UK
• Michael Saunders Business Development Director – Conviviality Plc
• Jo Thornton MD Moet Hennessy Ltd
• Andrew Wilby MD Northern Europe, Brown Forman Corporation
• Tamara Roberts CEO of Ridgeview Wine Estate