Christopher A. Weed joined Christie's in 2024 as Associate Vice President and Specialist in the Wine and Spirits Department; based in Beverly Hills, he advises private and institutional collectors through the sale and acquisition of fine and rare wines and spirits. Christopher entered the wine trade in 2009 and spent the next thirteen and a half years at a major US wine auction house. There, he spent a decade as Director of Operations, managing the business operations of the firm's California and Hong Kong offices, including auction sourcing and sales, retail acquisition and sales, personnel, facilities, warehousing and logistics, marketing and client strategy, and the inspection, cataloguing, storage, and sale of all collections. He introduced the firm's spirit auctions in 2018.
With additional experience in luxury hospitality, wine storage, and retail and en primeur, Christopher excels in building lasting relationships with collectors as well as in sharing his passion for extraordinary wines.
Christopher holds a degree in International Relations and International Economics from Franklin University Switzerland, is a Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers (2009), holds the WSET Level 3 Award (2015), and is recognized as a French Wine Scholar by the Wine Scholar Guild (2019).