Mark Drendel

Director and Founder

For more than 20 years, Mark has been assisting wine companies of various sizes to grow and manage their clientele in Europe and around the world.

Mark’s background is in Marketing and Finance, with an MBA from IESE in Spain and an undergrad degree in Finance from the University of Illinois Urbana. He passed with distinction the Level 3 Advanced Course on Wines & Spirits from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust in London.

For the past 20 years CEC Wines had managed the European export business for a variety of brands from Ventisquero Wine Estates and currently assists them in developing new business opportunities.  VWE is one of the largest wine companies currently exporting from Chile.

Before forming CEC Wines, Mark had previously worked for Viña Santa Rita as Senior Product Manager in Europe.  Mark was born in the United States and has lived overseas since 1993 and in Europe since 1999. He is fluent in both English and Spanish and studying Danish.