Naked Wines: New Group Chief Executive Officer

Naked Wines has announced its Group Chief Executive Officer (Designate), Rodrigo Maza: a former AB InBev and Grupo Modelo executive.

Maza, Naked’s UK Managing Director since September 2023, will work side-by-side with Rowan Gormley, Executive Chairman, over the next several months to ensure a successful transition, after which he will assume the Group CEO role permanently and Rowan will resume his previous role as Non-Executive Chairman.

Maza will join the Board of Naked with immediate effect.

Prior to Naked, Maza launched and scaled several on-line delivery businesses for alcoholic beverages across a range of e-commerce and subscription models, including AB InBev's TaDa Delivery in Latin America and PerfectDraft in Western Europe. He also held various executive roles at Grupo Modelo S.A. de C.V. and AB InBev.

Naked has also appointed Emma Kamel, formerly COO of the UK business, to succeed Maza  as General Manager of the UK business. Emma has over six years of experience with Naked, rising through the organization including as Commercial and Supply Chain Director.

Online wine retailer Naked Wines has operations in the UK, US and Australia.

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