Craft distiller near Seattle, WA, working from Everett's Paine Field Airport. Previously a tech company founder and former US diplomat with a life long interest in travel, languages, food, cooking and business startup and small business investing. In "spare time," co-moderates an online food & recipe group with some 2000 followers, where he posts in English, French and Arabic. A hobby includes growing olive trees: Barouni from Tunisia, Gemlik from Turkey and the time-tested Spanish Arbequina.