MEET THE TEAM
Ashleigh Schwochow
Co-founder & Director of Operations
Ashleigh's extensive management background in hospitality spans from high-end to everyday affairs.
She began her 20+ year hospitality career serving and bartending through college, and eventually managing high-volume bar programs in Put-In-Bay, Toledo, and finally Cleveland.
In 2010 she graduated from Baldwin-Wallace with a BA in Public Relations and Marketing. As Private Events Manager, VIP Sales Manager, and Operation Manager working with an Autograph Collection Hotel, Metropolitan at The 9, she oversaw 3 Luxury Restaurant concepts including the opening of the award winning bar "Vault", one of Cleveland's best high-end cocktail and mixology bars of the time.
She is currently the Internal Communications Manager for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Michael Alfeo Giustiniani
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael was born and raised in Rome (IT) and in 2001 moved with his family to Naples, Florida.
He attended college at FGCU while working at the Naples Ritz-Carlton and later at the Port Royal Yacht Club. Following graduation, he moved to New York City where he began working at the award winning mixology bar, Macao-Trading Co & Employee's Only.
After a few years in NYC, he moved to Berkley (CA) and began working in the San Francisco wine scene where his interest in wine studies began.
In 2019, he received his Beverage Specialist Certificate from the Society of Wine Educators and Certified Sommelier Certificate from the Guild of Master Sommeliers in 2025.
He currently works as Business Development Manager for Superior Beverage Group.