Philippe Sereys de Rothschild, born in 1963, is the son of Baroness Philippine de Rothschild (1933-2014) and the famous actor Jacques Sereys. After succeeding his mother on her death as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA, he was appointed Chairman and CEO in 2018. The leading exporter of Bordeaux AOC wines, the family company notably produces and markets the renowned Mouton Cadet. Philippe Sereys de Rothschild is also the owner, with his siblings Camille Sereys de Rothschild and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild, of three classified growths at Pauillac in the Médoc – Château Mouton Rothschild, Château d’Armailhac and Château Clerc Milon – and of Domaine de Baronarques.

He received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1991 after graduating from Bordeaux Business School.

After spending two years as an analyst in the M&A department of Banque Lazard in New York, during which he worked on major transactions such as the RJR Nabisco LBO, he joined the management team at Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE, now Vivendi) as a project coordinator reporting to senior management, working on environmental protection projects in the UK, Italy and Taiwan.

From 1995 to 1998 he served as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of one of the group’s main Italian subsidiaries, specializing in energy management and the environment.

He left CGE/Vivendi in 1998 to become CFAO then CEO of SLP Infoware, a French company producing market analysis/CRM software, a position he held until 2003. After selling the company to Gemplus, from 2004 to 2010 he held senior executive positions at Natixis Investissement then NEM Partners, two Natixis private equity funds. During this time he made investments in several companies including Newrest (airline catering) and Saverglass (luxury bottle producer).

He played a leading role in the creation of Barons de Rothschild champagnes, from the first harvest in 2005 to its international launch in 2010, and is now chairman of the company which runs the business, representing the family shareholders.

In 2011, he became co-founder, shareholder and member of the Supervisory Board of Alma Learning, a group specializing in private education, distance learning and training. Alma Learning has majority interests in the private school Cours Hattemer, Hattemer Academy, Cours Legendre, Cours Saint Anne and Euro Formadis. He created Jolt Capital, an investment fund focusing on new technologies, in the same year.

In 2015, with his sister and brother, he founded the Philippine de Rothschild Corporate Foundation to honour the memory of their mother. He has been President of the Foundation since January 2017. Philippe Sereys de Rothschild has been Chairman and CEO of Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA since 2018.

He has three children, Léonore, Mathilde and Nathan.

An aerospace engineer by training, Jeb Dunnuck grew up on a farm in rural Indiana where 2% milk was the beverage of choice and wine was hard to come by. It wasn’t until 1996, when living abroad and traveling through Europe, that he became interested in fine wine.

Moving to upstate New York in 1999 to work for Lockheed Martin, and later to Colorado in 2001 to work for Ball Aerospace, he traveled extensively throughout the wine regions of Europe and the United States, where he quickly developed a passion for the wines of the Rhône Valley and the Rhône Ranger Movement in California and Washington. To gain a better understanding of the business side of the wine industry, he took a temporary wine retail position in 2006.

Jeb launched the “The Rhône Report” publication and website in 2008 and began releasing a quarterly newsletter reviewing Rhône variety wines from around the world. Completely independent and including coverage on wines from France, Spain, Australia, and both California and Washington in the United States, the publication continued to gain in popularity and subscribers, and by 2013, was read in over 24 countries and seen as one of the leading authorities on Rhône variety wines.

In 2013, after being approached by Robert Parker to join The Wine Advocate team, Jeb gave up his engineering career and wrote full-time for the Wine Advocate. Described as a younger version of himself by Robert M. Parker Jr., Dunnuck was the leading reviewer for California, Washington, and Southern France from 2013 to 2017, publishing more reviews than any other professional reviewer.

In 2017, Jeb decided to leave the Wine Advocate and go back to his roots as an independent wine critic, launching his own publication JebDunnuck.com. Through the platform, Dunnuck offers comprehensive, consumer-focused coverage of the most interesting wines from California, Washington, Oregon, Champagne, Southern France, and Bordeaux, while seeking out discoveries from around the world.

Dunnuck’s goal with JebDunnuck.com is to provide insight and up-to-date information that can’t be found anywhere else. “Too often today, the ‘story’ behind a wine is put before the quality of a wine,” Dunnuck said. “I want to help consumers cut through the marketing and the spin and zero in on what’s in the glass. I plan to deliver the information consumers really need to know when trying to decide what to buy and what to drink.”

He resides in Colorado, with his wife Traci and dog Ella, where he pretends to rock climb and race a bicycle.