Brand & Business Strategy
Positioning, business planning, portfolio architecture, opportunity development, and disciplined priorities.
Spirits, Beverage & Consumer Brand Specialists
Great brands and great products deserve a clear path to market.
High Gate helps founders and emerging brands in premium spirits, beverages, lifestyle, hospitality, and consumer products turn opportunity into execution—shaping the strategy, capital plan, partnerships, and route to market required to build enduring value.
Building Brands. Creating Markets. Unlocking Growth.
Premium Spirits
Beverages
Lifestyle
Hospitality
Consumer Products
What we believe
A good idea is only the beginning.
We work alongside founders and leadership teams to close the gap between vision and commercial reality. Our role is practical and connected: clarify the opportunity, build the plan, align the right partners, and help move the business forward.
Capabilities
From first decision to next stage.
Commercialization
Product, production, pricing, distribution, sales strategy, and the operating roadmap required to launch and scale.
Capital Formation
Investor narrative, financial story, materials, presentations, introductions, and capital-readiness support.
Licensing & Partnerships
Strategic alliances, outbound licensing, brand extensions, and new routes into relevant consumer categories.
Where we focus
Built for ambitious founders and emerging brands.
High Gate brings particular depth in premium spirits, beverages, lifestyle, hospitality, and consumer products—where brand, distribution, capital, and relationships must move together.
About Us
Experienced operators. Practical partners.
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Peter Iglesias
Co-Founder, CEO & President
Peter is a 25-year wine and spirits executive who builds brands, teams and routes to market. He helped launch four Kintsugi and Oishii brands, secure Southern Glazer’s distribution and win national retail placement within two years. Previously, as CEO of Bespoken Spirits, he built a distillery, commercialized rapid-aging technology, created artist partnerships and raised approximately $21 million in capital.
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David San Juan
Co-Founder & Executive Partner
David is a consumer-products commercialization, licensing, and strategic-growth executive with more than 30 years across apparel, sporting goods, automotive, food and beverage, spirits, hospitality, and entertainment. His work has involved Carlos Santana, the PGA TOUR, Ferrari, Volkswagen, STP, Louisville Slugger, Salt Life, and Armor All. He brings expertise in licensing, brand extensions, retail growth, partnerships, and capital formation.
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Daniel G. Fletcher
Chief Marketing Officer & Partner
Dan is a C-level marketing and communications executive spanning brand strategy, advertising, experiential marketing, sponsorships, sports, entertainment, retail and business development. He has led specialty agencies affiliated with Interpublic and Omnicom, building one organization to more than $180 million in billings within two years. He turns sharp brand positioning into integrated campaigns, high-value partnerships and measurable market growth.
Let’s talk
Let’s discuss what you’re building.
A focused initial conversation will help us determine where High Gate can create the most value.