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GUEST CONTRIBUTORS
Daniel Penseyres
Daniel Penseyres, currently a Switzerland-based recruiting consultant with MP Executive Consultancy, has an extensive background in international banking, including working as chief investment officer of HSBC in Monaco and chief
executive officer of fund management for the Bank of China in Geneva. Penseyres began his banking career in 1991 at the Republic National Bank of New York’s Swiss office and has also worked for two Fortune 500 companies as head of foreign exchange trading and risk management.
RAFAEL MICHA
afael Micha is chief marketing officer and managing partner at Grupo Habita, which owns 15 posh lifestyle hotels located in Mexico and the U.S., and Mexico City’s trendy Downtown Beds hostel. Micha’s hotels, the latest of which Hotel
Terrestre in Puerto Escondidido, Oaxaca, have been featured in Wallpaper*, Vogue and The New York Times, 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.
in Baja California, Mexico, where she has her atelier and home. In 2020 Sonia made her debut as a fashion designer launching her label, AMA Designs by Sonia Falcone, with “Cabo Chic,” her first collection in support of projects including the San Jose Down Syndrome Center.
LRobeRto Valle
e Cordon Bleu-graduate Roberto Valle has delighted guests and friends in cities like Paris, New York, Montreal, Los Angeles and Los Cabos as a successful restaurateur, chef and host in a career that has spanned 40 years. His love of posh and nosh is
coupled with a welcoming heart, keen aesthetic and unique savoir-faire from a man who has truly never met a stranger. A gourmand with an effervescent joie de vivre, Valle is a natural guide to the finest things in life. #epicureanomad.
Photos Courtesy Of: Rafael Micha | Rafael Lührs @RafaLuhrs, Daniel Penseyres, Sonia Falcone, Roberto Valle 20 | www.OceanBlueWorld.com
SONIA FALCONE
Sonia Falcone is a Latin American contemporary artist from Bolivia. Her exhibits include two editions of the Venice Biennale. Sonia is also the founder of AMA — Saving the Oceans Foundation — which she created in 2019 to support marine conservation and community care initiatives