Claire Hobday earned her BA in Law and Music from Keele University in the UK, gained her Chartered Accountant qualification with global audit and advisory firm PwC and most recently completed her Wine Executive MBA at Sonoma State University where she is now an adjunct professor. Claire lived in New Zealand for 13 years, joining the wine industry in 2011 with Treasury Wine Estates and transferring to Napa in 2013. She started as CFO with C. Mondavi & Family at the historic Charles Krug estate in St. Helena in 2018 and serves on the board of Appellation St Helena.