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Ridgely Evers

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Founder & CEO at AVIVO Wines LLC
📍 Healdsburg, California, United States

Ridgely Evers is a veteran entrepreneur and Stanford MBA graduate now focused on large-scale carbon sequestration as the Founder & CEO of AVIVO Wines. With a diverse background in software, real estate, and farming, he applies his visionary approach to making affordable, regeneratively-farmed wine. Colleagues describe him as bright, thoughtful, and visionary.

His personal and professional lives merge in his passion for sustainable agriculture and land stewardship. This commitment began with DaVero Farms & Winery, a biodynamic farm he co-founded, inspired by the climate and varietals of Italy. He is deeply invested in farming practices that regenerate soil health and biodiversity.

In the 1980s, he started his first farm by taking olive tree cuttings from an 800-year-old grove in Lucca, Italy, and planting them in Sonoma County.

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Experience
37 Years
Current Role
Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Healdsburg, California, United States
Personality Overview

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Priorities

Topics Ridgely cares about

Regenerative Farming
His current mission with AVIVO Wines is centered on regenerative farming practices to actively sequester carbon and combat climate change through agriculture.
Carbon Sequestration
He has dedicated his "third half of life" to sequestering carbon at scale, viewing it as a critical global challenge that agriculture can help solve.
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Career

Work history

1-2020
Founder & CEO
AVIVO Wines LLC
1-1988
Founder & Co-owner
DaVero Farms & Winery
2-2022
Co-Founder
Elevation Wine
5-2020
Advisor
InnerPlant
5-2022
Advisor and Board Member
Vinoshipper / CompleteDTC
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Media appearances

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Education
1980 - 1982
MBA
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Stanford University
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DISC profile (public)

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