2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Martin Penrose Managing Director, Benchmark, United Kingdom Martin Penrose is Managing Director of Benchmark, one of the leading furniture and joinery companies in the UK, renowned for their pioneering stance on sustainability. A powerhouse of craft and a design-led business, Benchmark has workshops in Berkshire and Dorset, and a client base that includes many of the world’s leading architects and…
Timothy Anscombe-Bell
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Timothy Anscombe-Bell Director, Sustainable Design Collective, United States Timothy Anscombe-Bell is a Los Angeles-based design and sustainability consultant, who has spent his career collaborating with architects, designers, developers and leading craft-based manufacturers to create healthy and sustainable spaces. A strategist and project manager with experience in organizational change and development, communications, innovation and co-creation, he consults on green building projects…
Michael Acton Smith
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Michael Acton Smith Co-founder, Calm, United Kingdom
Vanessa Fuss
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Vanessa Fuss Managing Director, VML Intelligence, United States
Tonia Callender
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Tonia Callender Research Fellow, Global Wellness Institute, United States Tonia Callender specializes in conducting economic and legal research and analysis. She is passionate about promoting mental health and well-being. Tonia has advised private and public organizations worldwide on equitable development policies. She has worked with government and community organizations to enhance public-private partnerships and she has designed and evaluated a…
J. Carl Ganter
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker J. Carl Ganter Founder, Circle of Blue, United States Carl Ganter is co-founder and director of Circle of Blue, the center for frontline reporting, research, and analysis on water resource issues and their relationship to food and energy in a changing climate. Carl is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and photojournalist whose work has appeared in most major magazines, newspapers, and television…
Vlada Tusco
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Vlada Tusco Senior Partner Manager, BBC Studios, United Kingdom Vlada Tusco is a senior partnerships manager at Programme Partnerships, BBC Studios, overseeing the development and production of award-winning programs and campaigns focused on issues and topics that are shaping our world. She connects organizations leading meaningful change with BBC’s global audience through immersive and impactful storytelling. Prior to the BBC…
Cathy Feliciano-Chon
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Cathy Feliciano-Chon Founder & Managing Director, CatchOn, a Finn Partners Company, Hong Kong Cathy Feliciano-Chon is founder and managing director of CatchOn, a Finn Partners Company, one of Asia’s leading brand communication consultancies in hospitality, travel, wellness, food and design, with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai. She is also a GWS Advisory Board member. A marketing communications expert, she…
Luuk Melisse
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Luuk Melisse Founder, Sanctum, Netherlands Luuk Melisse conceptualized the Sanctum brand in 2020. The unmatched Sanctum Signature Sequence to empower the body and expand the mind is inspired by his background as a professional dancer and his spiritual journey, vision quests, Kundalini yoga practice and his encounters with monks. Sanctum is a fast-growing movement, welcoming one thousand participants a month,…
Gabriel Olszewski
2024 Global Wellness Summit Speaker Gabriel Olszewski CEO & Co-founder, Sanctum, Netherlands An experienced marketeer and brand builder, Gabriel Olszewski is the co-founder and CEO of Sanctum, a global mindful movement. Sanctum, defined as an unmatched moving sequence to empower the body and expand the mind, is designed to unlock human potential by reaching physical edge and mindful euphoria through a unique group class experience.…