About Us

Morgan is the networker, cheerleader, press liaison and the instigator/organizer behind the expansion of Second Glass. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and headed to Boston for college where she earned her degree from Emerson College in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. After graduating she ran 1st Publications Motion Affair Planner (MAP) BOSTON a combination local city guide and planner that was sold successfully at Barnes and Noble locations across the city. She then switched her full-time focus to all things wine and social media. Morgan has been recognized for her upbeat can do attitude and success in various publications including The Boston Globe, MSNBC's Your Business and was most recently named of of INC Magazines 30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs. You can find Morgan back and forth between Boston and LA as Second Glass expands its empire.

Tyler discovered wine while attending college in the Pacific Northwest. He learned the culture surrounding wine while living for a year in rural France, and then honed his skills working at a wine shop on Newbury Street in Boston. Second Glass was born out of Tyler’s desire to create a fun, entertaining atmosphere when learning about wine. The company began as an unpretentious wine print magazine but soon grew into an event company that ran on new media and technology. Tyler has been instrumental in the use and development of new technologies to create and distribute wine information. He conceived of and developed the mobile application used at Wine Riot and other third-party events and utilizes new social media techniques to make wine information more easy to obtain and more useful to the average consumer. Tyler has been heralded as a new voice in the wine world. This summer, he was profiled as one of 2010’s most exciting young entrepreneurs in INC Magazine’s 30 Under 30 and crowned “the prince of Boston’s wine revolution” by Stuff Magazine. Tyler has written for Boston Magazine and held a column in the Weekly Dig and was a regular on the NECN Morning Show. He’s also appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and, Boston Metro.

Avery acts as project manager for Second Glass's technology projects and directs UX development. She attended Olin College, a revolutionary new hands-on engineering school in Needham, MA, graduating in the third class ever with a mechanical engineering degree that emphasized user-centered design. After college, Avery entered the startup and engineering worlds at Artaic redesigning mechanical subsystems and programming robots to build giant mosaics that would put the Italians to shame. Even though she grew up in the Willamette Valley on Oregon microbrew, Avery found a soft spot for wine during a semester abroad in France. She started attending Second Glass crash courses and loved them so much that she joined the company, becoming both the first employee and the first technical team member. If you don’t want to stay up until the early hours, we wouldn’t recommend bringing any of these up in front of Avery: tandem bicycles, Oregon, and the library. *Especially* the library.

Karl is a master coder, working tirelessly to make the website and mobile app faster and, more importantly, easier for you to use. He is a graduate of Olin College of Engineering, with a degree in "mucking about with computers," or at least, it might as well be. He first encountered Second Glass when the Boston contingent held a wine tasting at school. As can sometimes happen when wine is involved, one thing led to another, and now he works for Second Glass. Previously working at WePay, a Y Combinator company, he built online payment tools until Second Glass came along and wooed him to work for them! He grew up in Vermont, with a distinct lack of wine, but came to love wine after spending a summer in California, where wineries would deliver it straight to his doorstep. A hippie at heart, he loves all things outdoors - biking, hiking, swimming, dancing, and laying in the grass, to name a few. Prior to attending college, he hiked the Appalachian Trail, and given the opportunity, will enthrall, amuse, and horrify you for hours on end with stories about the experience

Rachel is our marketing maven and social media stud. She grew up in a Stepford Wives-esque town just north of Los Angeles. In order to escape the life-like robots, she fled to Boston and attended Emerson College graduating with a Marketing Communcations degree. Rachel heard about Second Glass and thought to herself, “I need to work for a company that embraces and indulges in copious amounts of fermented grape juice.” So she did. Previous to Second Glass, Rachel trained staff in social media efforts and established a search engine-marketing plan for Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. She also earned her marketing chops working for 451 Marketing, Boston Living Center and Task Rabbit. When she’s not running events or patrolling the Twitterverse, she can be found fawning over cute animals pictures and attempting to cook a nice meal that usually results in injury. Fun fact: She used to be an Irish dancer, but will only demonstrate after a significant amount of libations

Jenn is the face of third party events and can totally hook you up with our mobile app. She grew up only a few miles from many of the wineries in Lodi, CA with the distinctive smell of vineyards and cow manure filling the air. Despite the odor, a love for wine grew. She graduated from the University of the Pacific...no not an online school rather a small private school in Northern California, with a degree in Journalism. After a brief stint as a journalist for her hometown newspaper, she began sharing her love of wine by pouring at events for different wineries and pouring for herself too. A former promo model for high end wines, Jenn used her social skills and good looks to pour at Wine Riot LA, and there she decided she had to work for a company that appreciated that drinking wine with breakfast, lunch, dinner and as a midnight snack is not a character flaw. When not behind the steering wheel visiting wineries and events, she is outside doing ANYTHING in the Los Angeles sunshine with her trusty sidekick and faithful canine companion, Guinness, or making one of her fabulous cake creations.

Fear not, wineries: Liz puts the "pro" in profile and will be your best friend as we get your tasting room app up and running! Liz aka "Coach" is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a degree in Spanish and Iberian studies. A native of Buffalo NY, Liz demonstrates outstanding driving capabilities in adverse weather conditions and a weakness for competitive sports. She recently returned from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she worked as a travel writer and made moves to master Spanish and South American wines (often simultaneously). Previously a marketing and events intern, Liz is back in the states to join Second Glass full-time for total world domination. When not off on outdoor adventures or beach-bound with a stocked travel cooler, you can find Liz peer-pressuring the Second Glass crew into shotgunning beers.

Holly is the design guru behind Second Glass. She creates anything and everything that visually represents the company – from the promo materials and event guides to the website and mobile app. When Holly was still in school at The New England Institute of Art and looking for internships, fate (Craigslist) brought her to the Second Glass Boston office as the first and only design intern. With luck on her side and lots of hard work, she found her true love – digital illustration. After three years of designing for Second glass and many glasses of wine later, Holly is our rockstar freelancer. When she's not designing, she can be found playing classical piano, organizing her bookshelf by color or cooking something vegetarian. Check out her work at www.missgordon.com

Amanda is a San Francisco native who is absolutely obsessed with this city. She studied at the University of Arizona for two years and realized that boring old Tucson was not meant for her. She immediately knew that she belonged in SF and quickly transferred to the University of San Francisco. Transferring schools turned out to be the best decision of her life and she couldn’t be happier! She recently graduated from USF in December with a degree in Communications and plans on pursing her career within the events and marketing industry. Amanda is a huge SF Giants baseball fan and you can usually find her at AT&T park covered head to toe in black and orange! When she’s not busy exploring new restaurants and hotspots off of her 150-restaurant list, you can find her jet setting around the world with her closest friends with her camera capturing every moment.

Natalie has lived in San Francisco/Marin her entire life! She left her heart in San Francisco when she moved to Tucson to attend The University of Arizona. After two years in smelly ol’ Tucson, she decided to return back to BEAUTIFUL San Francisco to attend the University of San Francisco, where she earned a degree in communications. She wants to pursue a career in marketing and event planning. When she is not traveling or following the best house DJs in the world (Avicii, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and more), you’ll find her at home playing with her two adorable Maltese mix puppies. Fun fact: Natalie has an identical twin and they do almost everything together.

Meet your Boston wine guy! Jake is the man on the ground keeping the Second Glass spirit alive and kicking in Boston. Text, message, or tweet at him to find out what Second Glass is up to! Jake hails from the far away land of New Jersey, where diners are open 24 hours and highways outnumber roads. That is, until he moved to Boston to attend the most geographically-correct, directionally-named university: Northeastern. Soon after arriving Jake developed a taste for wine while bootstrapping a very successful rum-running operation to his dorm. A rather abnormal teenager, Jake discovered his passion for the startup life at the ripe age of sixteen. While other high schoolers were worrying about whether their socks matched, Jake was already starting his first and second e-commerce operations as an Amazon Seller and eBay Powerseller. Now part of the thriving Boston startup scene, he spends his time growing companies, advising fellow entrepreneurs, and polishing off his ninth cup of coffee. When Jake isn’t in the office you can find him bar-hopping across town, making espresso at two AM, and thinking about going to the gym.

Ryan is flexing his web dev muscles in joining the infamous tech team! A bay area native, Ryan moved south to study Biochemistry and Neuroscience, receiving his degree from UC San Diego. When not in the lab he spent his time paragliding along the La Jolla coast and climbing in the rock gym. Ryan was lured away from science and San Diego to join a tech startup building a sustainable city in norther Portugal. There he developed a taste for port and a special affection for vino verde. Ryan has recently repatriated to the states and is happy to be home in the bay. When not writing code for the Second Glass website or belligerently cheering for the Niners, you can frequently find Ryan scaling walls with cat-like agility.