Bio

Alex Pagon is a Founding and Managing Partner of Third Leaf Partners. He leads Third Leaf’s beverage practice, which oversaw the successful turnaround of Evening Land, launched ENTER.Sake in the US and Europe as a category leader in the premium sake segment, and helped grow several other brands, including Empire Estate, Lingua Franca, Antica Terra, and OOLA. He currently advises premium wineries, breweries, and distilleries in five states and six countries. Alex also serves on the board of WineBid, the world’s largest online wine auctioneer, and is a founder and director of Protea Financial, which provides accounting and bookkeeping services to small- and medium-sized businesses. Prior to founding Third Leaf, he led the effort to build a vertically integrated portfolio of international wine businesses, including Sandhi, Leviathan, and Mulderbosch, as the Chief Operating Officer and Lead Underwriter at Terroir Capital, which owns, operates, and manages select winery and resort assets globally. In addition to creating and overseeing the teams and systems necessary to produce, import, and sell Terroir’s wine internationally, Alex led the due diligence efforts for each acquisition and then directly managed the operations at each business until it could support a dedicated management team. Before joining Terroir, Alex served as an intelligence officer in the United States Army, in which he commanded a company of 121 U.S. and South Korean soldiers and civilians and served as the aide to the commanding general of Special Operations Command Korea. He received his undergraduate degree with Distinction and Honors in Economics (with minors in Mathematics, Spanish and Portuguese) from Stanford University.