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GUEST CONTRIBUTORS

Rafael Micha

afael Micha M Sc, International Relations, is CMO
and Managing Partner at Grupo HABITA, which
R has 14 posh lifestyle hotels located in Mexico
and the U.S. His hotels and lounges have been featured in
publications including: Wallpaper*, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler,
and the New York Times, among many others. In addition,
he personally attends to VIPS, international media, and his
prestigious guests, including: Madonna, Kim Kardashian-
West, Katy Perry, Bono, Viggo Mortensen, and contemporary
artists Shirin Neshat, Gabriel Orozco, the architects Wolf Prix,
and Richard Meier, among many other luminaries. Micha is on Deborah
numerous Art Museum boards and is deeply committed to the
contemporary art scene. McCormick

Jacquie Bate D pursue a travel-writing career.
eborah McCormick’s wanderlust
for far-away places led her to

She was managing editor for in-flight
daydreamer,” teachers wrote on magazine Wild Blue Yonder, and then brand
Jacquie’s school reports. With a passion director working with East West Resorts.
“A for reading, general knowledge and McCormick has bridged the architect’s
playing with words, she’s a blogger, published poet vision with compelling branding for resorts
and Weakest Link winner. With Enid Blyton and including one of the top 25 spas in the world:
her parents as role models, Jacquie learnt to write, and Spa Anjali at the Westin in Beaver Creek.
never stopped learning. Based in Durban, Jacquie and Under the tagline “Where Nature Nurtures”
her husband are digital nomads - camping and road McCormick created a positioning platform
tripping across South Africa. Happiest at the coast, intrinsically tied to the inspiring Colorado
she can live anywhere there’s wi-fi and chocolate! Rocky Mountains.

Russell Kristofer

Paulson Dayne

modern day Renaissance Penseyres
Man, Russell has accumulated
A a breadth of domestic and
international experience in the music,
entertainment, and travel industries
since his recent graduation from the ctor, Film Producer, Great by Cute Little Buggers and then Dawning
University of Southern California. Dayne Entertainment, and of the Dead. All are marketed online and
After managing a live entertainment A CMO, of Twenty-First Luxury in stores internationally. In addition, he
business for six years, Russell moved Holdings, SA. Kristofer Dayne Penseyres did freelance content production for Sony
to Italy where he lived, worked, and created his film production company in Pictures TV UK. He now resides in his
traveled for fourteen months. Upon his 2011, Great Dayne Entertainment, after native town of Geneva and is currently
return to Los Angeles, he began working graduating from Stella Adler Academy finding new and innovative ideas to
with Element Lifestyle as a Travel of Actors in Los Angeles. In early 2012, promote and communicate luxurious
Advisor, designing bespoke luxury travel he arrived in London and produced his products and devices at Twenty First
experiences for discerning clients. first feature film, Crying Wolf, followed Luxury Holdings SA.

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