John Dyson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Millbrook Capital Management which owns Pebble Ridge Vineyards & Wine Estates, which in turn, operates wineries and commercial vineyards in New York, California and Italy.
Much of Dyson's career has been spent in public service. He created the New York tourism campaign in the 1970s when he was Commissioner of Commerce for New York state. In 1994, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani appointed him New York City Deputy Mayor for Finance and Economic Development, in which position he worked to rebuild the downtown area in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. He served as chairman of the New York State Power Authority and of the Urban Development Corporation and state commissioner of agriculture, where he was responsible for developing the "Grown in New York" program.
John Dyson earned a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University.
There was a research project that was done there. I'm digressing. There was a research project done by one of your colleagues. As I said, people lie less on the internet than they do face to face. You see that study? Some Cornell professor, I forgot his name, did the study. I was blown away by...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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John Dyson Shares Thoughts on Selling Directly to Consumer Rather Than To Distributor
