Visionaries

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Wellness Founder-Hoi An, Vietnam

Michelle Ford

After years leading hotels and spas across Asia, Michelle Ford began questioning why wellbeing was confined to the treatment room. She founded Lumina to weave it through food, design, culture, operations and daily life, creating experiences rooted in each destination rather than imposed through a repeatable global wellness formula.

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Chef Founders-Marylebone, London, England

Andreas Labridis & Nikos Roussos

One left investment banking. The other left his family’s silversmith business and became a two Michelin starred chef. Together, Andreas and Nikos created OPSO, bringing a more contemporary expression of Greek food to London without losing the generosity, memories and flavours that shaped them.

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Hotel Founder-Sacred Valley, Peru

Mary Moses, Michael Moldauer & Michel Seiner

Mary Moses, Michael Moldauer and Michel Seiner are the founders of Andenia Boutique Hotel, a quiet garden retreat in Peru’s Sacred Valley shaped by travel, gastronomy and slow living.

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Hotel Founder-Solihull, West Midlands, England

James & Fjona Hill

We found this old manor house buried in paint and neglect with 150 year old woodlands nobody had touched. Fjona was a doctor. I grew up in a pub. We were 26 with no plan except the feeling that this place had been waiting for someone to bring it back to life.

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Design Studio Founder-Athens, Greece

Dimitris & Konstantinos Karampatakis

Dimitris and Konstantinos Karampatakis are the founders of K-Studio, an Athens-based architecture practice known for hospitality spaces shaped by Greek identity, craftsmanship and a deep relationship with landscape.

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Hotel Founder-Amaliada, Peloponnese, Greece

Nikos Karaflos

Nikos Karaflos is the founder of Dexamenes Seaside Hotel, where an abandoned 1920s wine factory on the Peloponnesian coast was transformed into a raw, quiet retreat that preserves the industrial character, history and atmosphere of the original site and soul.

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Hotel Founder-Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece

Stratis Batagias

Stratis Batagias is the founder of MANNA Arcadia, where a long-abandoned 1920s sanatorium hidden in the forests of the Peloponnese was restored as a peaceful mountain retreat, preserving the building's history while giving it an entirely new sense of purpose.

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Hotel Founder-Candidasa, Bali, Indonesia

Logan Bailey

Logan Bailey is the founder of The Seed, an exclusive-use estate in East Bali created around family, nature, music and the belief that adults should never lose their instinct to play.

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Chef Founders-London, England

Woongchul Park

Woongchul Park is the chef-founder of Sollip, Britain’s first Korean-owned Michelin-starred restaurant, shaped by Korean memory, European technique and human connection.