Enartis USA announced the promotions of Amy Jensen to Sales Manager and James Allen to Applied Innovation Manager, effective March 2026. These strategic appointments underscore the company’s evolution from a traditional enological product supplier into a comprehensive partner for integrated winemaking solutions, engineering services, and applied research.
Strengthening Leadership for a Modernizing Industry
Producers across North America are actively navigating tightening margins, shifting consumer trends, and increased demands for operational efficiency. To meet these challenges head-on, Enartis is expanding its leadership structure to deliver connected, cross-disciplinary expertise that bridges enology, and engineering.
“The wine industry is moving from reactive decision-making to predictive control, and our leadership must reflect that,” said Francesco Bergaglio, CEO of Enartis USA. “Amy and James intimately understand the operational and financial pressures our clients face. Their combined expertise allows us to move beyond simply supplying products to designing integrated systems that deliver measurable ROI. We are moving from being simply a supplier to a true solution partner, and Amy and James embody that shift.”
About the Appointees
Amy Jensen – Sales Manager
Amy JensenWith more than 15 years of wine industry experience, Amy Jensen steps into the Sales Manager role with a strong combination of technical knowledge, customer insight, and long-standing company experience. During her 13 years with Enartis USA, she has grown from Business Manager to Corporate Accounts Manager and now to Sales Manager, reflecting a career defined by deep customer relationships and a broad understanding of the business. She holds a degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and, earlier in her career, she served as Lab Manager at DAOU Vineyards, experience that adds practical winery perspective to her commercial leadership background.
James Allen – Applied Innovation Manager
James AllenJames will lead the expansion of Enartis Engineering (EE), focusing on winery automation initiatives and applied research collaborations. His work supports wineries in integrating real-time data and advanced process control to optimize enological outcomes. With nearly 20 years in the wine industry, James has extensive hands-on experience and education from around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States – from New York to Washington to California, where he has been based for the past decade. He has built skills across many facets of the industry, bringing a broad and practical perspective to winery operations. James holds a Master’s degree in Viticulture, Enology, and Wine Business from Montpellier SupAgro and Geisenheim University, where he researched machine learning and smart data sampling techniques.
Guiding the Next Phase of Integrated Innovation
The evolution of Enartis’ strategy relies on a unified approach that seamlessly blends innovative research, advanced engineering, and enological science. By aligning these disciplines, Enartis guarantees that wineries receive holistic, end-to-end support as they tackle problems together. This collaborative, customer-first model empowers producers to:
Drive measurable operational ROI by significantly reducing labor bottlenecks and optimizing energy consumption.
Shift from reactive to predictive winemaking through real-time data monitoring and intelligent, automated processes.
Ensure reproducibility to guarantee consistent quality and limit costly variance issues.
Deploy connected cellar infrastructure that scales seamlessly—from targeted IoT sensors to full-facility process control.
Advance applied research to continuously pioneer modern, highly efficient winemaking and beverage protocols.