Meet the CEO behind 1 in 4 bottles of Oregon wine sold in America
Amy Prosenjak was running inventory for a billion-dollar furniture company in Ohio when her husband floated an idea that would change their lives. Prosenjak and her husband were in their early 30s and had fallen in love with wine tourism, traveling to Napa and to Italy whenever they had the chance. One day, her husband asked why she didn’t get a job in the wine business. “I said, ‘Well, who would hire me?'” Prosenjak recalled. “And he said, ‘I don’t know.
Why it matters
The story shows how a leader adapts a major Oregon wine producer to a shrinking market and private-equity ownership.
