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Nicole Bestard
Vice President Nicole Bestard is a professional writer who works tirelessly to help our clients perfect their message and announce it to the world. After graduating from the University of Portland with a degree in English Literature and Fine Art, she began her career in the luxury lifestyle market as an editor with 18 Media, publisher of luxury lifestyle magazines Gentry and California Home & Design. For four years, she wrote about wine, travel, fine dining, and entertainment trends on a monthly basis, and helped to assign, edit and shape stories for an affluent audience.
She moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2003 to establish the publisher’s southern California office, later following her love of all things food-related to manage public relations for some of the region’s top toques at Wagstaff Worldwide. As a publicist, she successfully garnered local and national media coverage for clients such as La Dolce Vita in Beverly Hills, Lincoln Steakhouse in Santa Monica, and 6ix Park Grill in Irvine. She joined Jarvis Communications in 2005 and continues to be inspired by the real people and stories behind every bottle of wine. From leading press trips in wine country to passionately pitching stories on the phone, Nicole instills all that she does with warmth, enthusiasm and the happiness that comes with doing what you love.
Nicole holds a Master’s degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and continues to pursue her passion for writing in the Los Angeles poetry and storytelling scene. Having spent a year in Salzburg, Austria in college and growing up with a father from Paraguay, Nicole has traveled extensively and is conversational in both German and Spanish. She is a member of Slow Food USA, and recently completed her fourth marathon with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program, raising money for cancer research while running off all the amazing meals and glasses of wine she happily partakes in on a regular basis.