Why Ethica Wines?
Our name “Ethica Wines” means we have an unyielding moral compass. We are transparent with our partners. We believe in fair trade. We give honest and trustworthy advice. We create strong relationships with customers thanks to a set of shared values. We provide a positive work environment for our employees. And we are respectful of the producers with whom we work.
Team
Aldo Di Filippo
Regional Sales Manager Pacific


Aldo was born in the Italian region of Abruzzo but raised in a small town in the province of Ascoli Piceno (in the region of Marche). His career in wine began in his early 20s when he worked for a leading wine and spirits distributor handling over 1,800 labels from around the world. Over the last 18 years, he has traveled extensively throughout various wine regions (Italy, France, Australia, and New Zealand ). He also worked a harvest at Auntsfield Estate (Marlborough, New Zealand) in 2019, an experience that expanded his growing knowledge of New World wines. He has completed Italian Sommelier Association certification levels I and II and is currently studying for his WSET level 3 certification. With Ethica Wines since 2021.
Alessandro Angelini
Compliance & Credit Manager (Vice President)


Alessandro Borghi
Product Marketing Specialist


Alessandro was born and raised in Veneto. His academic studies first brought him to Piacenza where he studied Viticulture and later to the Business School of Bologna to study Food and Wine Management. During the last years, he worked in the micro-vinification winery at the Mach Foundation in Trento, and he had the chance to visit Chile while working the harvest at a winery. To further enhance his knowledge of the wine industry he obtained his WSET 2 certification and attended the Alta Scuola del Sangiovese courses. For him, wine is a continuous exploration and ongoing adventure where he has the opportunity to merge his knowledge of both the technical side of viticulture/ winemaking and those of his management skills acquired. With Ethica Wines since September 2021.
Alessandro Dal Bianco
Sales Area Manager - New England


Alejandro Levya
Logistics Specialist


Andrea Pucci
Sales Area Manager - OR, WA, AK, MT, ID


Andrea Vescovi
Regional Sales Manager Western Canada


Angelina Rosa
Logistics Specialist


Ariela Di Marco
Sales Area Manager - South & West Florida


Ariela was born in Voghera, a small town near Milan, Italy. She grew up between Lombardy and Piedmont Regions and lived in a few places worldwide before landing in sunny Miami. After graduating high school, she moved to Milan where she pursued her studies in Visual Arts and worked for several Italian TV and Advertisement Agencies as a video maker and in the production and camera departments.
After 7 years in the TV business, she headed to Rome where her career veered towards event planning and marketing. While there, she completed a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Communication, she began working as an event and marketing manager for a local agency. Her passion for the Italian Food & Wine industry and desire to expand her horizons lead her to give the US a go. She headed first to NYC, then Washington DC, and Dallas, TX where she spent several years promoting and developing Italian brands in these territories. With Ethica Wines since 2023.
Beatrice Cataldo
Logistic Specialist – Canada


Bibiana Escobedo
Director of Sales - Central


Carolina Cossu
Director of Sales - Southeast


Cat Lee
Creative Designer


Damiano Sorato
VP of Sales - On-trade


Daniele Carli
Logistic Specialist – Asia Pacific


Dario Bergamini
Regional Sales Manager Japan


Delphine Constantin
Regional Sales Manager - Quebec & Atlantics


Diego Todone
Regional Sales Manager Southeast Asia


Elisa Calvello
PR, Event & Media Planning Manager


Erica Eliskases
Logistics Assistant – APAC Specialist


Francesco Ganz
Chief Executive Officer North America & Asia Pacific


Gabriela Bakotova
POs & Invoicing Specialist


Gianluca La Venuta
Director of Sales - Northeast


Giovanni Lossi
Sales Area Manager - North California


Giovanni Oliva
Sales Director - APAC (founder)


Giuseppe Blanco
Director of Sales - Midwest


Hailey Beike
Trade Marketing Specialist APAC
Hailey was born and raised in an exotic city called Urumqi, located in northwest China. After completing her bachelor's degree in bioengineering, she went to France to study plant biology in 2010. Among a variety of plants, she finally was attracted by these beautiful and winding grapevines. From then on, the journey of learning grape planting and winemaking had started.
In 2014, after finishing two-year wine cellar work in Paris, she returned to China and joined the leading French exporter Les Grand Chais de France to engage in customer maintenance and marketing analysis. During this period, she provided solid reliable market support for the company and improved customer loyalty through customer wine training, events, and promotion plans. In 2019, as the ambassador of Howard Park, a five-star winery in Western Australia, she broadened its sales channels and built an e-commerce sales platform in China. Since then, she has joined East Meets West, a leading importer in China as a brand manager.
Today, she looks forward to establishing great marketing in China for Ethica Wine's Italian wines. With Ethica Wines since 2022.
Helen De Cesare
Strategy & Transformation Manager


Jessica Perticarini
Logistics Assistant


Jessica was born in Sant’Elpidio A Mare, a little town of the Marche Region. After graduating high school, she moved to Venice where she studied oriental languages, and she specialized in Chinese culture. Over the last three years, she worked as Import Agent for an international Freight Forwarding company, having the opportunity to develop good customer service skills. She describes herself as a hard-working and ambitious person, she is a fitness lover as well as wine and food. With Ethica Wines since 2023.
Juhee Ryou
Regional Sales Manager South Korea


Lara Lona
Logistics & Purchasing Director


Luke Scileppi
Sales Area Manager - New York Metro


Maddalena Pistillo
Sales Area Manager MI, OH & National Prestige Accounts


Maddalena was born in Schio - Vicenza, Italy. Since she was 15 years old, she has always been a world traveler. She started by joining her father on his business trips, then later she spent some time in China throughout University projects while studying Economics in Milan, and later as export manager at her family’s business. In 2015 she graduated in “International Master in Business Administration” at CUOA Business School in Vicenza: a personal and professional life-changing experience that brought her to meet her husband and up took the management of a challenging tourism project in southern Italy. When in 2017 her husband accepted a job offer in Michigan, she had to start from the ground up once again to build her new life in the US as a mother while holding on to her strong entrepreneurial ambitions. Following her passion for fine products, she founded her own business as “made in Italy lifestyle ambassador,” representing excellence in the wine and food industry. She also partnered with a Caviar import company during the pandemic time, which led her to work in the worst market conditions but with the opportunity to dive even more into the fine restaurant industry and community. She’s now focusing on wine as it has always been her greatest passion, attending the Champagne Master program at the Wine scholar guild and about to start WSET level 3.
Marcello Becagli
Office Manager


Margherita Martina
Sales Area Manager - South Texas


Niccolò Saltarelli
Sales Area Manager - South East and North Texas


Nicola D'Incà
Bookkeeper & Treasury Specialist


Nicola Saltori
Junior Business Analyst - Logistic Specialist Kirkland


Paola Lena
Chief Financial Officer


Paolo Bressan
VP of Sales - Off-trade


Paolo Cressi
Sales Area Manager South California


Riccardo Giacobbo
Sales Area Manager - Mid Atlantic


Riccardo is originally from Veneto, he grew up in a small town near the Prosecco area. Since he was a kid, he has always been surrounded by the wine environment. Since he was 17, he has always worked at the weekends in restaurants and wine bars, driven by his passion and curiosity for everything related to food and wine. After the diploma, he started studying Business Administration and Management in Venice and during his studies, he started traveling and working in the surfing industry in France and Portugal, as he always loved to get in touch with different places and cultures and communicate in different languages.
He then decided to try to turn his passion for wine into an occupation, so he started working for an e-commerce of wine and spirits to learn how to deal with the commercial part of the product and then he did some experiences in the vineyards in Veneto and Burgundy. With Ethica Wines since 2023.
Robert Zaun
Sales Area Manager - North Florida


Roberta Picco
Regional Sales Manager Greater China


Roberto Sanso
Sales Area Manager - South & East Florida


Santina Vanasse
Social Media Specialist


Santina is from Boston, Massachusetts. She shares interests of art in different forms such as writing, music, fashion, to photography and collage. In 2017, she attended Suffolk University in downtown Boston, where she pursued a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in graphic design. Santina finished her degree with a remote internship for an event marketplace in Toronto, Canada where she completed various projects through print and digital collateral. After graduating in 2021, she started seeking full-time roles where she could leverage her design skills and additionally learn more about marketing. A few months later, she stepped into the alcoholic beverage industry as communications designer for Minibar Delivery, a leading alcohol e-commerce delivery service based in New York at the time. With Ethica Wines since 2023.
Simone Iacopini
Director of Sales - West Coast


Vera Malisani
Marketing Director & VP of Sales Canada & APAC


Veronica Zonta
Marketing Team Leader


Victoria Ciobanu
Logistic Specialist – Asia Pacific


Victoria was born and raised in Moldova, where she lived until she graduated at the Faculty of Political Science and International Diplomatic Relations. She received a bilingual education, as Moldova was a republic under the USSR up to 1991, thus her native languages being Russian and Romanian. At the age of 24 years, she decided to embark on the journey to explore the world and moved to the United Kingdom, where she lived and worked as a bookkeeper for 4 years.
It was fate that brought her to Italy, where her family moved to Trento in the meantime. She completely fell in love with Italy, its beautiful landscape, gastronomy, and wine. Starting a new job in a wine company ignited her passion for the wine world. Eight years working within the export department strengthened her knowledge of both wine and commercial practices while also cultivating her passion through wine courses (AIS 1 level), various tastings, wine fairs and events. With Ethica Wines since 2022.