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Dan Wildermuth
Vice President, Marketing

Dan Wildermuth joined Rodney Strong Vineyards in 1991 as Director of Marketing. He brought with him ten years of experience in the industry and a very successful track record from his stints at Mirassou Winery and Southern Wine & Spirits. In 1999, Dan was promoted to Vice President of Marketing for the winery and assumed management of the hospitality department and responsibility for overseeing export sales. Dan has been an integral part of the executive management team that was assembled after the Klein Family bought the winery in 1989, helping to grow the brand from 60,000 cases per year to 600,000.

Born in southern California, Dan was raised in Playa Del Rey and attended California State University, Long Beach where he received a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance. He worked for a short time as a Financial Accountant at Hughes Aircraft in the Radar Division but was soon lured into the wine business. His first job in the industry was for Bradshaw, Inc., where he worked as a Chain Account Rep in the wine division. Soon he moved on to Southern Wine & Spirits where he achieved tremendous success managing several of the largest retail accounts in California. After three accomplished years at Southern, Dan joined Mirassou Winery where he was promoted several times and eventually relocated to the winery’s headquarters in San Jose as Director of Sales and Marketing. In 1991, Dan and his family relocated to Sonoma County and he began his career at Rodney Strong.

Dan lives in Healdsburg with his two daughters and enjoys community service, skiing, volleyball, ocean sports, and coaching his daughters’ volleyball teams. His personal philosophy is “travel the road of honesty, integrity, and balance, and be the best at what you do.”

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