About Us

Michael Doerr

CEO, Founder & Fund Manager

London, United Kingdom

OENO Group's founder and CEO, has been passionate about luxury assets from just 14 years age, starting his first business buying and selling high-performing sports horses. This gave Michael the best start in learning how to manage and make profits from high end assets.

Michael is the #1 Wine Investment Advisor in the world 2022 & 2023 according to the prestigious SPEAR's 500 - the indispensable guide of top client advisers for HNW individuals.

Maxwell Nee

Managing Partner

Singapore

Maxwell manages investments for his family and has been featured in Forbes & Wealth Insider for growing a multi-award-winning online education company 300% in the first 5-months of the COVID-19 Lockdown in a saturated industry. Previously, he was a finance professional who managed $100M+ businesses for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Maxwell has received written acknowledgements of his character and contribution to others from an Australian Governor (Administrator), and the co-founder of B1G1 (Buy 1 Give 1) - a platform businesses use to do good in the world. He has been featured in The Australian Business Review, Courier Mail, and on Australian radio educating investors.

Charles Nee

Investment Director & Manager

Brisbane, Australia

Charles Nee is a multi-award-winning finance, banking and investments professional with 20+ years of experience in the industry. He is the Director of Crestmount Capital, and was previously a Business Banking Manager for the National Australia Bank.

Mr. Nee is a certified financial advisor with expertise in helping families, businesses and UHNIs build wealth through personal, commercial, development funding and property investments. He has successfully completed Real Estate Trusts with a current market value of over $100m, and takes pride in investing alongside his clients.

Brian Mellett

General Partner

Pittsburgh, USA

Brian brings the unique combination of venture capital general partner, exited tech entrepreneur, international growth strategist, and thought leader. Brian is an alternative investment general partner in funds focused on Blockchain Digital Asset equities and Med Tech innovation. His Crypto VCF Blockchain Opportunity Fund was a 2022 recipient of the “Best Crypto Fund -USA” by Wealth and Finance Magazine.

With 25+ years of experience advising founders and their companies, Brian’s expertise focuses on serving high-growth clients in the industries of finance, technology, healthcare, education, real estate, sports, restaurant tech, and green/sustainability.

Adi Divgi

Board Advisor

New York, USA

Adi Divgi is Principal at EA Global, his family investment vehicle, and co-founded Divino Global Investments LLC in 2023 to provide capacity-constrained and hard-to-access private market opportunities to retail and institutional investors. Previously, he was Managing Director of Strategic Wealth at Legacy Wealth Management and Legacy Investment Solutions. Mr. Divgi was Head of Alternative Investments at Catalina, a $5+Bn AUM reinsurer, executing over $450mm in private market commitments combined across direct investments and fund commitments in credit, real estate, and equity.

Mr. Divgi oversaw the Opportunistic Fixed Income investment program at the New York City Bureau of Asset Management ('BAM'). With approval from the 4 participating Boards of Trustees, he executed $3.6 billion in capital commitments across 9 firms each with at least $2.5 billion in AUM.

Michael Wang

Board Advisor

Los Angeles, USA

Michael Wang is the Founder & CEO of Prometheus Alternative Investments, Inc., an investment-focused community of fund managers and allocators with a marketplace to invest in hedge funds, venture funds and private equity. Wang brings with him almost two decades of experience in executive leadership and active portfolio management across many sectors. Wang was a founding Principal and the Generalist Head at Tourbillon Capital and helped grow the alternative asset management firm to $2B before leaving to lead Cypress Funds. Prior to Tourbillon, he spent 5 years as a senior analyst at SAC Capital, helping grow one of the largest and most successful portfolios there.

During his leadership, Cypress Funds was awarded the best U.S. equity fund under $1bn in 2018 by the HFM U.S. Performance Awards which showcases top-performing hedge funds. Wang has been featured and quoted in Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessInsider, Entrepreneur, MarketWatch and Institutional Investor.

Almudena Alberca MW

Master of Wine

Ambassador for Spain

Madrid, Spain

Almudena Alberca is the first woman in Spain to achieve the title of Master of Wine. After graduating in agriculture engineering, she continued her studies gaining a degree in oenology and a master in viticulture. Her first harvest was in New Zealand at Vidal Estate, part of the Villa Maria group. Since then she has travelled extensively through wine producing regions worldwide.

Almudena worked at Dominio de Atauta in Ribera del Duero where she played an integral role in shaping their wine styles and achieving international success. During this time, she was also the Spanish specialist for importer AvivaVino in New York, selecting and blending wines for this market. Almudena has been the technical director at Viña Mayor since 2015, one of Spain's large-volume players in Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Toro. She is also responsible for developing new brands and wines in regions like Rías Baixas and Valdeorras and is involved with PR, marketing and sales both in Spain and abroad.

Clark Squires

Board Advisor

Nova Scotia, Canada

Clark has been President, COO, SVP and Director of leading American and Canadian companies involved in developing and managing hotels, technology and commercial real estate. Over his 38-year career Clark has landed major contracts across the globe for hotel provisioning software and digital media and helped develop & manage over 100 hotels in the USA and Canada.

Clark was Corporate Director and Vice-Chairmen of the Atlantic Provinces Chambers of Commerce with over 100 Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce with over 15,000 business members. Clark was a former Board Member of OIC International based in Washington DC – a partnership with some of the largest corporations in the world to provide workforce development in developing countries.

Michael Doerr presents - Why so many Family Offices, UHNWIs are Investing in Wine & Whisky (especially in a down market)