Hartwig Zakin is the Operations Manager for Circo Vino, a national importer of fine wines from Austria. Prior to his tenure at Circo Vino, Mr. Zakin was the Operations Manager for the Illinois Medical District; a commercial banking research assistant at DeutscheBank; a sales representative at Vin Divino; and a case specialist in the Better Business Bureau’s consumer arbitration division. Mr. Zakin is a member of the Evanston Citizens Police Academy and has mediated juvenile victim-offender cases with the Neighborhood Restorative Justice Institute. As an immigrant who came to the United States when he was 11, Mr. Zakin has long been passionate about refugee issues and joined the Board of RefugeeOne in October 2009. Mr. Zakin holds a Masters degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Bachelors degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California.