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GUEST CONTRIBUTORS
RAFAEL MICHA
afael Micha is chief marketing officer and managing partner at Grupo Habita, which owns 14 posh lifestyle hotels located in Mexico and the U.S., and Mexico City’s trendy Downtown Beds hostel.
Micha’s hotels have been featured in publications such as Wallpaper*, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, and The New York Times, among others, and are a favorite of prestigious guests including Madonna, Kim Kardashian-West, Katy Perry, Bono, Viggo Mortensen, contemporary artists Shirin Neshat and Gabriel Orozco, and architects Wolf Prix and Richard Meier. Micha is on numerous art museum boards and is deeply committed to the contemporary art scene.
FKristofer Dayne Penseyres
ilm producer, creative director, marketing and communications specialist, Kristofer Dayne Penseyres created his film production company in 2011, producing three independent features that are marketed online and in stores internationally, as well as promos
for Sony Pictures Television, UK.
In 2014, he joined Twenty-First Luxury and was chief marketing officer and creative director of Hadoro Paris and NOUS Concept.
Now based in his native Geneva, Penseyres heads The Creativicals an innovative brand development consultancy that promotes service- driven businesses.
SUSY BUCHANAN
Susy Buchanan is a seasoned journalist, researcher and editor. Over the span of a more than 20-year career, her work has appeared in the United States and internationally and garnered numerous awards including the Society of Professional
Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Award, the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for Multicultural Reporting and a First Place Award from the National Federation of Press Women. Her reporting has included topics as varied as racism and political extremism, sports, travel and food writing, personality profiles and indigenous cultures.
Photos Courtesy Of: Rafael Micha | Leo Manzo, Kristofer Dayne Penseyres, Susy Buchanan 18 | www.OceanBlueWorld.com