September 5, 2024, St. Helena, CA. — It’s with nice unhappiness that we announce the passing of artist, musician, wine enterprise advisor and co-founder of World Wine Companions, Vic Motto, at his house in Florida on September 1, 2024.
Having grown up in Florida, Vic got here to the Napa Valley within the late 70s whereas touring. He fell in love with the realm and determined to re-settle within the valley. Together with Karen Kryla in 1982, Vic based the CPA agency Motto Kryla & Co. In 1985 Mike Fisher joined them and the agency was renamed Motto Kryla & Fisher (MKF). At the moment, the companions determined to focus completely on serving the wine business providing accounting, tax and monetary consulting. Led by Vic, the agency’s companies expanded into software program improvement, analysis, administration consulting, and funding banking. In 2003 the funding banking enterprise expanded to grow to be MKF Advisors, then merged with Worldwide Wine Consultants in Sydney, Australia to kind World Wine Companions. In 2005, each the CPA agency and the analysis enterprise had been bought to Frank Rimerman & Co. At this time, World Wine Companions continues to function providing Funding banking, enterprise valuation, and wine enterprise monetary consulting. Lots of at the moment’s monetary leaders within the wine business bought their begin with MKF.
Vic’s purchasers included lots of the high wine companies, together with a number of main worldwide wine firms. His early purchasers included Robert Mondavi. Mr. Mondavi was quoted as saying “He’s crucial particular person within the California wine business over the previous twenty-five years. We knew methods to make wine; he taught us methods to generate income.”
Vic held management roles as a director or advisor for varied nonprofits, wine business commerce teams, and universities, and served on the Boards of a number of wine firms. A sought-after speaker on the wine business, he was steadily quoted by main media retailers.
Previous to founding World Wine Companions and its predecessor companies, he was an govt with a serious worldwide management-consulting agency and member of their U.S. nationwide actual property workforce advising REIT’s and large-scale actual property builders and was beforehand within the retail wine commerce as a supervisor and wine purchaser for a big U.S. wine retail chain.
Vic is survived by his spouse Sandra Timpson Motto.
