Bid now to enjoy a one-on-one mentoring session with a successful entrepreneur and wine connoisseur - with over 22 years of experience, Tom Geniesse in NYC!
Discuss your venture with Tom and he will brainstorm with you and provide strategic advice and concrete next steps to help make your new idea a reality or take your existing business to the next level. Born and reared in New York City, Tom Geniesse moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the television business, working on the development or production of network and cable series and movies, including NBC’s award-winning “Homicide.” In his ten years at Reeves Entertainment (“Homicide”), Vin Di Bona Productions (ABC’s “America’s Funniest Home Videos”) and Arnold Shapiro Productions (CBS’s “Rescue 911”).
Tom’s primary responsibilities were to create, package, sell, cast, staff and oversee the production of new television projects. In 1996, Tom followed his entrepreneurial spirit to start a new venture. His idea was to take the best professors from the greatest universities in the world and make their instruction available via the Internet to students anywhere in the world. With his childhood friend, Alec Hudnut, Tom co-founded Quisic in his garage. Quisic raised significant venture capital from blue chip investors to focus on business education at every level. In partnership with PBS, undergraduate courses were broadcast to millions of homes produced with leading professors from Harvard Business School, University of Chicago, UCLA, and London Business School, among others. The company produced unique graduate level programs with Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and USC’s Marshall School of Business. Serving the Fortune 500, Quisic created corporate training programs for customers such as United Airlines, Cisco, Lexus and Citibank. As co-founder and chairman of Quisic, Tom’s primary responsibilities included strategy, company culture, brand development and the hunt for significant new business opportunities through development, partnerships and acquisitions. Tom’s newest venture is Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit, an innovative retail wine concept designed to make wine less intimidating by making the customer’s shopping experience more fun and intuitive. Founded in 2006, Bottlerocket has served over one million customers with its patented design. New York Magazine wrote “Absolute Best Wine Store In New York”. Tom serves on the board of directors of Grace Church School. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, three children and crazy Labrador retriever.