Mombacho Cigars S.A. has announced that Mo Maali will be the company’s new national sales manager.

Mali has worked as the manager of Casa de Puros, a retail store in Forest Park, Ill., and is the owner of Patina Cigars, which are made at Mombacho’s Casa Favilli factory and scheduled to debut later this month. He founded the blog Sultans of Smoke in 2014.

“I am looking forward to representing Mombacho on a national level,”said Maali in a press release. “Mombacho is a brand on the rise and I am excited to help take the brand to the next level. People need to know Mombacho and people need to know Claudio. The bottom line is, we have great people making great cigars and we want to share them with cigar smokers everywhere.”

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Charlie Minato

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