Albert Pecora immigrated with his family to Baltimore, Maryland, from the town of Cosenza in Calabria, Italy in 1958. Pecora attended the University of Baltimore, School of Law in the late 60's.

During the 1970's Albert joined his family business and began a successful career as a restaurant and night club owner, owning restaurants in Baltimore, Towson, and Bel Air, Maryland. In 1980, Albert formed a local wine and spirit import and distribution company and aptly named it Albert E. Pecora Imports.

Later, Pecora co-founded the very successful A.V. Imports Company, in 1986. It began as a small Italian wine importer and developed into an industry leader. As President of A.V. Imports, Pecora saw his company grow to one that represented products from 14 different countries, employed over a hundred people nationally, and grossed annual sales of seventy million dollars. A.V. Imports distributed its products to all 50 states and Canada, using a network of over 200 distributors.

In 1996, AV Imports nationally launched one of the most dynamic wine brands the industry had ever seen -- LUNA di LUNA. Luna di Luna, the wine in the blue, red and many colored bottles, would become an award winning best selling Italian wine throughout the United States. Pecora credits the success of Luna di Luna to creative packaging and great quality at an affordable price. In 2007, after 21 years in business and millions of wine and spirit case sales Pecora and his partner sold AV Imports.

Mr. Pecora joined the Baltimore-based Roma Sausage Company, as CEO, in 2008 and quickly branded the company Roma Gourmet Foods. He intends to build on Roma Sausage Company's existing foundation of success and quality to develop a national leader in the production of gourmet sausage.