Dave Paradice
Curating the experience.
Hosting the night.
Keep the room engaged
You’re planning something that needs to land.
A client dinner. A leadership offsite. A private event.
Sometimes the challenge is filling the room.
Sometimes it's making sure the room works.
Often, it's both.
A guided tasting woven through your existing dinner or run of show is how I keep guests engaged and conversations flowing naturally. Something unexpected, never forced. It’s not really about the whisky, it's conversation, atmosphere and well, ok the whisky helps.
Is this a good fit for your event?
This doesn’t suit every occasion. It can work for an intimate dinner, a large scale event or even a conference room. Reading the room is what I do. And that starts here.
Tell me what you’re planning and we’ll take it from there.
"Dave curated and delivered a whisky-paired dining experience that created the ideal environment for important client relationships during AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas.
Relaxed, premium, and professionally executed."
Hassan Peymani
Head of iGaming | CreateFuture
AWS re:Invent | Las Vegas, 2025
A Recent Event
Elea are world leaders in Pulsed Electric Field technology. They brought me to Germany for their annual open day with a specific challenge.
After a full day of factory demonstrations and technical discussions, attendance at the evening portion of the event had started to soften. A hosted whisky dinner gave people a reason to stay engaged, attend the evening, and experience something different alongside the technology.
Same crowd. Different venue. Different energy.
Guests had travelled from Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, and across Europe. Most weren’t whisky drinkers, which made the conversations even better.
By the second pour, conversations had shifted naturally from technology and machinery into more open, relaxed conversations and genuine relationship building without the usual corporate mask.
That’s the role whisky plays in these events.
Not to dominate the room. To change the energy of it.
