Anthony is one of the most highly-rated and in-demand corporate speakers in the beverage arena, uniquely combining dual degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science with decades of restaurant management experience and an entertainment background that includes numerous television appearances, multiple web series, and over 600 Off-Broadway performances. An award-winning mixology author, educator, and consultant specializing in the history and science of alcoholic beverages, Anthony takes pride in offering best-in-class product innovation training to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies as well as engaging and immersive team building and client appreciation events.  He has been the Director of Spirits Education and Research at New York’s top-ranked Institute of Culinary Education for over a decade, and authored the cocktail chapter of their groundbreaking cookbook, Recipes for Innovation.  Anthony is also the producer, playwright, and star of The Imbible series of NYC-based musicals about the history of cocktails and spirits, which have become some of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time as well as high-volume bar programs.  Anthony has given two Talks at Google, he was the featured Cocktail Historian on The Smithsonian Channel‘s Searching For Secrets: New York episode, and he recently completed curating an exhibition on Temperance and Trade for Mystic Seaport Museum, the nation’s leading maritime museum.  In addition, Anthony served as the National Brand Ambassador for Drambuie Scotch Liqueur and Truvia Natural Sweetener, as well as the Managing Editor for Chilled Magazine, where he currently writes their “Business of Bartending” column.

Anthony has a particular passion for, and expertise in, developing cocktail recipes featuring ingredients that would otherwise become food waste, as well as products sourced from sustainable and regenerative agriculture practices. He is on the Board of Directors for Yellow Farmhouse Education Center where he teaches a Farm Cocktails series, and he recently created a Food Waste Cocktail menu for The Global Foodbanking Network‘s teambuilding event in NYC.

This fall, Anthony will be the Keynote Speaker at The Institute of Food Technologists dinner hosted by PepsiCo, and he is developing the curriculum for the Business of Bartending Certification Program at ELEVATE 2024.