A Team that Knows The Industry.
Our combined 40+ years of experience and sole focus on the Adult Beverage Industry make us a perfect partner to help our portfolio companies reach their full potential.
Our Mission
Be the most respected steward of investor capital by providing attractive, risk adjusted returns through a diversified strategy that capitalizes on the Industry’s unique position as a non-correlated, growth-oriented sector.
Be the primary resource and most sought-after strategic capital partner for Adult Beverage companies seeking large-scale growth.
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A Team that Knows The Industry.
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Our Mission
Be the most respected steward of investor capital by providing attractive, risk adjusted returns through a diversified strategy that capitalizes on the Industry’s unique position as a non-correlated, growth-oriented sector.
Be the primary resource and most sought-after strategic capital partner for Adult Beverage companies seeking large-scale growth.
The INvestbev advantage
Our experience in identifying current trends and emerging categories in the Industry allow us to align with those brands best positioned for large scale and sustained growth.
As a sought-after partner in brand growth for decades, we are recognized leaders in the Adult Beverage Industry, which can be an advantage when sourcing and competing for deals. Our deep Industry ties across the 3-Tier Adult Beverage compliance chain (supplier, distribution, retail) gives us a deeper reach than our peers and helps us uncover growth and exit opportunities.
We have decades of experience in brand growth, financial modeling, operational efficiencies, and national distributor and importer integration. This vantage point allows us to be hands-on, and be strategic to our investors and their capital .
Our extensive global network provides access to relationships across the Adult Beverage Industry. This offers our portfolio companies unique access to scalable growth drivers and metrics.
Our track-record and relationships working with Industry’s leaders, financial buyers, and taste makers allows InvestBev to support our portfolio brands and provides for a clear and detailed 4-5-year path to exit, IPO or acquisition.
Management Team
Brian Rosen
Founder & General Partner
Brian has been a lifelong leader in the Adult Beverage Category. He is globally regarded as the leading authority in the three-tier system.
Brian sold his own $100M-retail liquor enterprise to private equity, became a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Adult Beverage, and was lead consultant in Trade Marketing at Anheuser- Busch. Brian later sold his 2nd company BevStrat, to private equity .
As General Partner for InvestBev, Brian is intimately involved across fund formation, deal negotiation, brand growth and exit.
Brian has an Executive Leadership degree from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business MBA program and a degree in marketing and finance from DePaul University
Giuseppe Infusino
Chief Investment Officer
Giuseppe has over 12 years of investment and operations experience. Giuseppe leads InvestBev's investment sourcing, diligence, and structuring processes.
Prior to joining InvestBev, Giuseppe was Vice President at RVK where he managed several multi-billion-dollar private equity portfolios on behalf of large institutional investors. Giuseppe led buy-side analysis on direct and private equity fund investments. Giuseppe sourced, vetted, and negotiated transactions on behalf of his clients deploying over $1B across multiple strategies in the private equity space. Giuseppe began his career with Bank of America focused on optimizing organizational structure and improving operating processes.
Giuseppe earned an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Finance and Real Estate from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Team
Erin Duffy
Portfolio Brand Relations
Rachel England
Head of Portfolio
Larry Prosser
Director of Finance,
Chief Compliance Officer
Gustavo Aguirre
Vice President,
Brand Incubation
Karan Jhajj
Analyst
Aniya Evans
Analyst Market Data
Board of Advisors
Jeff Hopmayer
Brindiamo Group
With more than 30 years of experience as a Chief Executive, with the majority of that in adult-beverage organizations operating within both the public and private sectors, Jeff has built multi-million dollar companies from the ground up.
Through that process, he has overseen mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, and much more. Jeff has gained extensive experience in the retail, consumer products, and adult beverage arenas through these companies, and now he’s sharing his knowledge with other entrepreneurs through the Brindiamo Group.
Ron Diamond
Stanford Global Family Office Initiative
Chairman of the Advisory Board
Longtime investor and entrepreneur Ronald Diamond is the Founder and Chairman of Diamond Wealth Strategies. He represents 100 single Family Offices ranging in size from $250 million to $30 billion.
Diamond Wealth invests in private markets (private equity, venture capital, and real estate). In addition, Diamond Wealth has divisions that focus upon philanthropy, wealth transfer, investment banking, social impact, and governance.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Diamond founded Pinnacle Capital — a $250 million hedge fund which outperformed the S & P index 10 out of 10 years — before ultimately selling his company to an international investment firm. Previously, Diamond served as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns. He began his career as an analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Taylor Foxman
Veteran beverage alcohol expert with over a decade of experience, having worked for globally recognized wine, beer and spirit companies including most recently Pernod Ricard in addition to others such as Gruppo Campari, Jägermeister, Patron Spirits and Stoli.
Andrew Levy
Andrew Levy is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Industry Affairs at Provi, the fastest growing B2B e-commerce marketplace for the beverage alcohol industry. In his role, Andrew oversees Provi’s strategy, industry affairs, communications, publishing and corporate development teams.
