 Jeremy was born in South Africa and educated in England. He has more than 25 years of experience in business, banking and venture capital financing. He spent 6 years with Bank of America based in London becoming Vice President responsible for Strategy, Investments, Planning and Technical Deal Structuring for a US $20 billion plus portfolio of assets. Furthermore, Mr. Wilkinson launched an “in-house McKinsey’s” for the European Division within Bank of America for strategic evaluation of global customers, product profitability and risk assessment. In 1985 Bank of America awarded him an Exceptional Performance Award. Mr. Wilkinson became Chief Executive Officer of the CTS Group, an international private venture capital group and client of Bank of America. He has lived in England, France &, Spain and is currently based in the USA. He has been actively involved internationally in Wine societies since his college days. Mr. Wilkinson was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Great Wines International in 1999. Mr. Wilkinson hosted the Weekly Wine Report on CRN in 2003 & 2004 and has been the guest on many radio and TV show such as the Les Kincaid “Wines & Vines” show in Las Vegas & “Just Like Home” TV Xmas Special 2004.
Mr. Wilkinson was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by Johnson & Wales (the largest Culinary University in the World) for his contributions to Culinary Education & was also elected in late 2001 as an Associate Member of the highly influential International Food & Beverage Forum and was admitted into the World Gourmet Society in Las Vegas in September 2004.
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