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# Opici Completes Acquisition of Pacific Highway, Names New Leadership Team
- URL: https://bevnews.net/opici/
- Published: 2023-10-18T01:13:45.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-18T01:13:45.000Z
- Author: Joel Whitaker
- Tags: Acquisitions

**Opici Wines & Spirits** completed the acquisition of **Pacific Highway Wines** and introduced an expanded leadership team composed of executives from both Opici and Pacific Highway.

**Don Opici** will be CEO. He joined the family business in 2005 after graduating from Columbia Business School.

**Mark Giordano** moves to the role of President. He spent more than a decade growing the Pacific Highway Wines business. 

**Stefano Francini** takes on the newly created role of Vice President, Sales Strategy and is responsible for the architecture of Opici Wines & Spirits sales planning. **Jerry LaVecchia** moves over from Pacific Highway Wines and is promoted to Vice President, Sales – National Wholesale. The third sales executive, also from Pacific Highway Wines, is **Rachel Roberts**, VP-National Accounts.

**John Mihm** joins as Vice President, Operations, from Pacific Highway Wines. Finally, Angela Slade is named vp-communications, a new division in Opici..