Sep 30 2020 38 mins
Bridget Firtle, born and raised in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens, began her career on Wall Street at a hedge fund as a consumer goods investor with a focus in global alcoholic beverage companies. In 2012, she saw an opportunity to join the renaissance occurring in American distilling and founded Owney’s Rum – New York City's only rum distillery. Within five years of the launch, Bridget formed a strategic partnership with international spirits company Proximo Spirits, and in early 2020 she successfully sold the company to launch Rockaway.
Rockaway is a new sparkling beverage that embodies the creative, unfaltering energy of New York City and offers functional benefits from powerful plants and adaptogenic herbs. In this episode, we discuss the transition from investing on Wall Street to building a rum distillery from scratch, how she created and sold a business in five years and how she made the transition from spirits to the non-alcoholic space and launched her second company, Rockaway.