 Pancho
Campo is a man that loves challenges as well as getting
involved in different areas of business. He started out as
a tennis professional, and then went on to study a medical
career. But his heart has always been in event management,
and therefore he has spent most of his adult life organizing
large sporting events and promoting musical concerts.
He developed
a love for wine at the age of 18, and after retiring from the
event management world in 2003, he decided to found The Wine
Academy of Spain. By 2004 he was spending his entire time on
what has been a passion for decades….wine.
Pancho Campo has been a student in winemaking and wine marketing
with the University of California Davis, is one of the 2 Spanish
candidates to become Master of Wine and is the wine editor for
several publications. He has attended training seminars and courses
in London, Bordeaux, and Austria. He teaches for the WSET in
Spain, and is the founder of the International Wine Symposium.
He has also developed the First World Meeting on Global Warming
and Wine, as well as the Barcelona Wine Festival.
As professional sportsman he found in tennis a career that
lasted many years. A few years after finishing medical school,
he became a well known and respected personality in the world
of tennis in Spain. He was well respected amongst his peers,
because of the numerous professional tennis symposiums that
he organised with leading coaches and specialists on the international
tour. Pancho Campo was the first promoter that managed to get
Andre Agassi, who was a Wimbledon champion at the time, to
play in Spain against Pat Cash. He also founded the European
headquarters of the world famous Bollettieri Tennis Academy,
considered as the most important tennis academy in the world
as it has trained tennis stars such as Andre Agaassi, Seles,
Courier, Haas, Mary Pierce and many others. In 1992 one of
his lifetime dreams became a reality: to participate in the
Olympic Games in Barcelona, the city where he was brought up
in, and represent Chile, his country of birth.
 In
1995 he was offered to move to the Middle East. His first
stop was in Qatar, where he coached the national team and
led them to win the Davis Cup division 3. In 1997 he moved
to Dubai where he set up his own tennis academy as well as
an events management company. Through his organization he
promoted tennis clinics and exhibitions with Stefan Edberg
and Emilio Sánchez Vicario.
 He
founded the Adidas Sports Academy, and organized the Dubai
Pro Beach Soccer, with players such as Eric Cantona, Juninho,
Abel, Setién, and Massaro amongst many others. He also
organized the Dubai leg of the World Cup of Indoor Trials.
In September 2001, Pancho met pop star Enrique Iglesias in
Zurich, who accepted to end his world tour with a show in Dubai.
With 7000 spectators and a full house, this concert launched
Pancho´s
career as a music promoter.
Concerts with legendary names followed:
Tom Jones, Sting y Pink Floyd, as well as Jamiroquai, Shaggy,
UB40, Viena Boys Choir, and many others, including Joaquín
Cortés and The Glenn Miller Orchestra in Marbella.
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