Ed Tiege is the President and Master Distiller at Copal Tree Distillery in Belize and was involved in the distillery construction, commissioning and developed Copalli Rum. Prior to joining Copal Tree Distillery, he ran his own successful distillery in Westchester County, NY for 10 years.
He received his distillation and fermentation training at the cognac distillery Domain Prive, in Archiac, France.
He received a Master of Science degree in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from the State University of Stony Brook.