HIRED: Olivier Grémillon as Chief Executive Officer of Vivino, the world’s most downloaded mobile wine app and largest online wine marketplace, effective July 26. He joins from Booking.com and succeeds Heini Zachariassen, founder/ceo. Zachariassen will remain on Vivino’s board of directors and continue his role as Chief Evangelist for the company.
DIED: Donald D. Galleano, 69, president of the Historic Cantu-Galleano Ranch in Mira Loma, California, a fifth-generation winery founded in 1927. Galleano is the oldest Prohibition-era winery in the Cucamonga Valley still owned by the family and operating at its original location. Since 2004, he served on the Board of Directors of the Western Municipal Water District and was Western’s sole representative on the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.