2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Wim Hof Creator, Wim Hof Method, Netherlands Wim Hof is a Dutch-born world record holder, adventurer, daredevil and researcher. Called “The Iceman,” he is best known for his preternatural ability to withstand extreme cold. Perhaps most significant is his experimentation and experience with specific and teachable breathing, mindset and cold exposure techniques. Wim has made it his mission to share…
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Sue Harmsworth, MBE Founder SATCC and ESPA, United Kingdom Sue Harmsworth is an inspirational and visionary leader who over the past 50 years has shaped the spa and wellness industry as we know it today. She founded the global brand ESPA in 1993 and sold it in 2017. Sue is responsible for the design of over 500 award winning spas…
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Robert Hammond President and Chief Strategy Officer, Therme Group US, United States Robert Hammond recently joined Therme after serving for over two decades as co-founder and executive director of Friends of the High Line, where he led the transformation of an abandoned elevated railway line in Manhattan into an iconic and beloved urban park. He also created the High Line…
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Simone Gibertoni CEO, Clinique La Prairie, Switzerland Simone Gibertoni is the CEO of Clinique La Prairie (CLP), an exclusive clinic that is one of the most iconic Swiss brands. For more than 80 years CLP has been at the forefront of better-aging research and treatments in rejuvenation, health and beauty. Simone drives the international development of CLP and its diversification…
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Anna Deacon Photographer and Author, Scotland Anna Deacon is a photographer and co-author of eight wellbeing books and travel guides, including the best-selling The Art of Wild Swimming and Taking the Plunge. She has also written articles for several national publications including The Guardian, Naturopathy Magazine and the Daily Mail. With a background in the music industry working on music…
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Dave Asprey Founder, The Asprey Group, United States Dave Asprey is best known as the founder of Bulletproof Coffee and the entire biohacking movement. As a four-time New York Times bestselling author, CEO of Upgrade Labs, and host of a Webby award-winning, top 100 podcast, The Human Upgrade (formerly Bulletproof Radio), Dave is a maverick in the entrepreneurial health science…
On the Agenda… Travel Industry Disruptor & Influencer Called by the Financial Times the ‘world’s most influential traveler,’ Jeremy Jauncey is the founder & CEO of Beautiful Destinations, an award-winning strategy & creative agency disrupting the travel industry worldwide. Jeremy is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and advisor with a passion for travel, health and sustainability—a truly global citizen who grew up near St. Andrews, Scotland, where the 18th annual Summit…
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Vicky Allan Journalist and Author, Scotland Vicky Allan is an award-winning journalist and author. A staff writer for The Herald on Sunday, her work has also appeared in The Times, Daily Express, Vogue, GQ, The Guardian and Scotland on Sunday. She has won awards for her travel writing, features writing and for her articles campaigning against violence against women. Her…
Nadia MeratlaExecutive Vice President, Head of Architecture & Design, Witkoff Nadia Meratla provides strategic design direction and tailored analytics to optimize competitive residential, commercial, and hospitality program value from development acquisition to execution. A trained architect, Nadia has worked on large-scale, mixed-use developments nationally. Sophisticated lifestyle, wellness, service and hospitality programs are integral to the Witkoff portfolio as exemplified by current developments including One High…
Nancy DavisChief Creative Officer, Executive Director, GWS & GWI Nancy Davis has decades of experience in strategic communications for Fortune 100 companies. Since joining the Global Wellness Summit (GWS) in 2013, Nancy has helped expand the organization’s global footprint through events and activities that promote the mission of both the GWS and the nonprofit Global Wellness Institute™ (GWI). She infuses her work with passion and…
