Marc Capobianco

Country:

United States

Industries:

• Restaurants
• Telecom Services
• Fine Arts
• Advertising Agencies

Keywords:

• wine, hospitality, medical, information, mobile, applications, advertising, theater, arts

Biography:

After completing my degrees in Creative Writing, I moved to California and undertook a highly unsuccessful stint as a starving artist before embarking on a career facilitating Mergers & Acquisitions in the California wine industry (1982-1989).

Seeking something more in line with my academic and literary proclivity, I switched gears and launched my multi-eponymous advertising practice, Capobianco, Karaleukon, Têteblanche & Whitehead, which I operated continuously, along with in-house advertising/marketing stints as a Copywriter/Graphic Designer at a number of hi-tech and healthcare enterprises (IBM, Spectrum HoloByte, Dahlgren Systems, Azteq, Firetalk, MedicAlert), for nearly twenty years.

Throughout this timeframe, I wrote and oversaw the production of several plays (Stillborn House, Rob, Are You for Ray Tiecyks?); drafted The Last Sharper Image Catalogue (for which I devised 250+ products); and launched novelty wine bottlings Thousand Points of Light Wines and Château Lompoc.

My ongoing interest and involvement in the wine industry initially led me to explore starting a serious label. In the midst of this process, I decided to redirect my accumulated wine knowledge and create Sostevinobile, the first major wine bar/retail outlet dedicated exclusively to sustainably grown wines from California, Washington & Oregon. Our flagship operation is slated to open its LEED-certified facility in San Francisco in 2012, with expansion targets in key cities along the West Coast.

Comunale is a decidedly low-key offshoot of Sostevinobile, marrying our access to bulk and surplus wines from the 2,500 wineries on our roster to the casual dining provided by mobile food operations. We are in the midst of negotiating our first location in San Francisco.

I created ResCue™ in 2011 as a Smartphone app to aid Emergency Medical Technicians and have now expanded its capabilities to handle Electronic Medical Records. Our app and desktop client is currently available to registered First Responders, medical practices, clinics and hospitals.

Professional Affiliations:

•Risorgimento (trade organization for Italian varietal wine producers in CA, OR & WA)
•Play Café (Playwrights’ Workshop)
•Slow Food SF
•Il Comitato per la Restaurazione del Papato Italiano
•San Francisco Blog Club
•Green Drinks

Work History:

• [2011-Current] Comunale
  Primus inter Pares
• [2011-Current] ResCue™
  Founder
• [2008-Current] Sostevinobile
  Wine Program Director
• [2003] MedicAlert
  Communications Manager
• [1999] Firetalk
  Senior Copywriter
• [1995] IBM
  Graphic Designer
• [1991] Capobianco, Karaleukon, Têteblanche & Whitehead
  Senior Copywriter/Graphic Designer

Location:

San Francisco California 94115