Dutchman Derrick Neleman has had a successful trade- and importcareer and is now living his dream: Making Spanish organic wine in Valencia together with friends. His mission is to make more people aware of organic wine. The goal is for the entire wine industry to stop using pesticides and herbicides. Together with his nearly 5000 co-owners, he is committed to wine for a better world every day.

Manager organic and Fairtrade wine for the Baarsma Wine Group. Stimulate, educate and development of organic and Fairtrade wine in the Baarsma Wine Group. Baarsma Wine Group Holding (BWGH) is a leading distributor of quality wines from all over the world with a fast growing distribution network in every sector of the wine market across North-West Europe. Established some 30 years ago in the Netherlands, BWGH has evolved into one of the main players in the European wine market, with a turnover of more than 250 million Euros.

In 2009 Neleman established By the Grape, the independent online wineplatform with daily wine news, podcast and videos. His goal is to inspire, share knowledge and bring wine experience. This means helping winebrands to communicate with the Dutch wine consumer on a new qualitative way. Won the Wine & Marketing Award 2010. Made the worldwide first winemagazine for iPad especially, featuring Jancis Robinson MW. By the Grape is Best Wineshop 2014 and second best winewebshop 2014.

It was his calling to make organic wines better and more widely available in the Netherlands. To that end, in 2001 founded Lovian, a successful Dutch company, which has since entirely focused on the purchase and sale of organic and Fairtrade wines. Introduced in cooperation with Max Havelaar the first Fairtrade wine in the Benelux.