Ep. 547 Alexi Cashen | Business Talk With Colangelo & Partners
Italian Wine Podcast Episode 547 | Alexi Cashen of Elenteny | How to Navigate the 3-Tier System in the States\nJuliana Colangelo of Colangelo & Partners sits down in conversation with Alexi Cashen, CEO of Elenteny Imports\nWelcome to this brand-new limited series "Wine Business Talk with Colangelo & Partners" hosted by Juliana Colangelo. This series deals with the wine business and the evolution of technologies in the wine industry; how it's helping consumers and how wineries can effectively use these technologies. Each guest gives listeners valuable guidance on how consumers choose wine, purchase and drink wine.\nAlexi Curlee Cashen is kindly referred to as the \u2018Chief Executive Optimist\u2019 \u2013spreading the gospel of empathetic customer service, sales panache and meticulous operations. She scours ideas and drives solutions, strategy and above all else \u2013 positivity!\nCelebrating 19 years of experience in the food and wine industry, Alexi\u2019s career is marked by a wealth of roles in hospitality, retail, wholesale and supplier positions. Starting out in the restaurant industry in her home state of Colorado, Alexi moved to New York City to season her career with positions at Craft Restaurant, Morrell & Company, Oriel Wines & Polaner Selections. Competitive and quick to see people and scenarios through different lenses, Alexi makes sales and marketing her expressed talent.\nAlexi\u2019s logistics prowess came with co-founding Elenteny Imports with colleague and friend, Tim Elenteny. Their goal is to provide logistics solutions, guaranteeing all of the details between initial order and final sale. Their services connect the dots between compliance complexities and distribution strategy allowing their clients sales to grow. Building a logistics business required an expressed understanding of \u2018how it works.\u2019 Eyes wide open, Alexi took on the operations and started building a team that continues to grow in New York, Colorado & California. Alexi has a keen eye for fundamentally analyzing new and growing businesses in the wine industry. She quickly boils down best practices and guides her teams and customers through the myriad of details that make up the US alcohol three-tier distribution system. Alexi thrives on B2B technologies that improve operations and information.\nA spirited Westerner and now ex-New Yorker, Alexi and her family live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she eats lots of oysters on the beach with Champagne!\nYou can find out more about Alexi Cashen and Elenteny through social media:\nWebsite:\xa0elentenyimports.com/\nFacebook: @teimports\nInstagram: @ elentenyimports\nLinkedin:\xa0www.linkedin.com/company/t-elenteny-imports\nCheck out our sponsor for this series Colangelo & Partners colangelopr.com/\nThank you Juliana for hosting this series!\nFollow Juliana Colangelo through any of these channels:\nInstagram:\xa0www.instagram.com/julezcolang/\nFacebook:\xa0www.facebook.com/jules.colangelo/\nTwitter:\xa0twitter.com/JulezColang\nLinkedIn:\xa0www.linkedin.com/in/juliana-colan\u2026lo-mba-04345539/\nInstagram:\xa0www.instagram.com/colangelopr/\nFacebook:\xa0www.facebook.com/ColangeloPR\nTwitter:\xa0twitter.com/ColangeloPR\nLinkedIn:\xa0www.linkedin.com/company/colangel\u2026public-relations\nLet's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:\nInstagram @italianwinepodcast\nFacebook @ItalianWinePodcast\nTwitter @itawinepodast\nTiktok @MammaJumboShrimp\nLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast\nIf you feel like helping us, donate here\xa0www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/\nUntil next time, Cin Cin!