Wine Tasting Dinner
at the Sarasota Garden Club
1131 Boulevard of the Arts, Sarasota, FL 34236
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
Join us for a beautiful walking tour of The Bay followed by an elegant evening of fine dining and wines
with Certified Sommelier Brent Schneider and The Bay's AG Lafley!
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Walking Tour of The Bay (Meet @Blue Pagoda - see details below)
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. – Wines, Dinner, & Dessert
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NOTE: At 5:00 pm, guests will meet for the start of the *Walking Tour* at The Bay offices:
Blue Pagoda, 655 N Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34236
ABOUT BRENT SCHNEIDER, CERTIFIED SOMMELIER
Brent Schneider is currently the CEO of a Texas-based consulting firm that helps small businesses build their clientele into large businesses. He has spent nearly three decades in the investment management business and was a restaurant manager, financial advisor, recruiter, institutional sales wholesaler, mergers & acquisition advisor, certified personal coach, and the national spokesperson for Prudential and MetLife. Brent also is a Certified Investment Management Analyst from the Wharton School of Business, with his undergraduate degree from SMU and North Texas in Investment Finance and International Economics. Brent has an MBA from the Cox School of Business, SMU in Investment Finance, and he holds Masters Degrees in Strategy and Accounting.
Brent’s most cherished pasttime though is his work as a Certified Sommelier, and for the past thirty plus years, his main passion has been tasting and collecting wines. He has consulted for several restaurants nationally and has presented over 1,500 public wine tasting and etiquette seminars. Brent won the prestigious Wine Spectator’s “Best of Award of Excellence” by creating (with over 1,800 wine selections) “one of the top 250 wine lists in the world”- a true high point for this wine hobbyist. Currently he is working toward his Master Sommelier designation, an advanced Wine degree which only 260 people worldwide have been awarded, and one day he hopes events like this will get him accepted to Harvard!
Brent is also an avid traveler, computing guru, and car restoration enthusiast. He co-discovered the 26th largest Prime number - with over 3.3 million digits - and is currently ranked 7th in the world in Distributed Computing, much to the chagrin of his Fiancée, and the electric bill. Feel free to ask him anything about cars, finance, computing, and especially wines, spirits, and beers.
ABOUT AG LAFLEY & THE BAY SARASOTA
AG Lafley (Harvard Business School MBA’77) is Founding CEO of The Bay Sarasota and the former CEO and Chairman of Procter & Gamble. In his first term as P&G CEO, sales more than doubled, profits and cash tripled, and the market capitalization more than doubled, making P&G one of the five most valuable companies in the U.S. and among the 10 most valuable companies in the world. In his second term as CEO of P&G, Lafley led the transformation of P&G by streamlining the Company’s businesses and brands, putting the leadership team in place to deliver more balanced and consistent growth. In Cincinnati, Lafley chaired Cincinnati Center City Development Corp (3CDC) from its inception in 2004 until 2010.
The Bay Sarasota and The Bay Park Conservancy are working to establish a cultural and economic legacy for the region while ensuring open, public access to the Sarasota Bayfront, establishing a park that is open, accessible, free, and welcoming to the full and rich diversity of our entire community – The Bay.
All Harvard and Ivy League Club alumni & guests are welcome!
A great opportunity to commune with friends and connect with your greater alumni community!!
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!
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