Stoutridge – Kim Wagner (Owner, Founder)

Kim and her husband produce award-wining wines and spirits as the founders and owners of Stoutridge, a vineyard, farm winery and distillery established in 2000 in Marlboro, NY.  This Hudson Valley, family-owned manufacturing and tourism business sources 100% of its fruit and grain inputs directly from New York State growers and is an Ulster County Certified Green Business.  Among the many awards their products have earned, in 2022 at the American Distilling Institute International Spirits Competition Stoutridge Absinthe Prelude was a double gold winner and was recognized as the Best Absinthe (Best in Category) and Best Specialty Spirit (Best in Class).

Kim has extensive experience serving on the boards of public, private, and not-for-profit organizations with agricultural, sustainability and/or educational missions.  Examples of her leadership roles include being the past Board President of the New York Wine and Grape Foundation, past Board President of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, current Board President of Ulster County Farm Bureau.  She is also a Cornell University Trustee and a board member for the National Grape Research Alliance.

She is the founder of TBGD Partners, a boutique firm providing expertise to early and mid-stage ventures in the agribusiness, food/nutrition and life sciences sectors.  She has been a Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering and President and Chief Operating Officer of CiBO Technologies.  Before that she was a Partner at McKinsey & Co. and a Senior Partner and Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.  She holds a PhD from Harvard University, an MS from Texas A&M University, and a BS with distinction from Cornell University.

For more information about Stoutridge: stoutridge.com