Courtney Kingston
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Courtney Kingston | |
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| Alma mater | Princeton University Stanford University Graduate School of Business |
| Occupation | Winemaker |
| Years active | 1998 - present |
| Known for | Kingston Family Vineyards |
Courtney Kingston is an American winemaker and entrepreneur whose work to pivot her family's Chilean dairy farm to growing wine is taught through case studies at Stanford Graduate School of Business.[1] Her company, Kingston Family Vineyards has been recognized as one of the best wineries in Chile.[2][3]
Kingston grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and attended Princeton University for her undergraduate education.[3][4] Her college thesis for her degree in Latin American studies was titled “A Crisis of Justice – Civil Liberties under the Pinochet Regime and during the Democratic Transition.”[3]
After college, Kingston moved to San Francisco and worked at Deloitte & Touche as a consultant for California wineries.[5] She then attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business for an MBA, graduating in 1997. After graduate school, she and her husband worked in the technology industry in San Francisco.[1]
Kingston and her husband Andrew Pflaum have three daughters, and split time between Portola Valley, California, and Chile’s Casablanca Valley.[6]