20 MINUTES WITH JULIANA SOUZA – SWISS-BELRESORT CORONET PEAK
Juliana Souza was recently appointed general manager of Swiss-Belresort Coronet Peak in Queenstown. Originally from Brazil, Souza’s first job was in a perfume store…
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20 MINUTES WITH ROMAN LEE-LO
The Rees Queenstown was recently named ‘Best New Zealand Hotel’ for the third year in a row at the 2019 HM Awards for Hotel…
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20 MINUTES WITH SCOTT SCHAEFER – HOTEL INDIGO
Scott Schaefer is the general manager of Hotel Indigo Brisbane, the first Indigo hotel in Australasia, due to open in August 2020. He spent…
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20 MINUTES WITH PAUL IZZARD – IZZARD DESIGN
Paul Izzard was educated in the UK, where he completed a degree in interior design at the University of Leicester. He then worked for…
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20 Minutes With Roger Billington – PENZL/Billington
There are not many designers in the world, let alone in New Zealand, that have the same depth of understanding and experience as Roger…
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20 Minutes with Vee Kessner – Space Studio
Since she was a child, Vee Kessner, director at Space Studio, has always been playing with designs, drawing and sketching things. “It was natural…
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20 Minutes with Suresh Subramaniam – U Hotel Group
Suresh Subramaniam is the founder and CEO of the U Hotel Group. Despite the title, Subramaniam insists the job isn’t all sunshine and roses….
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JIMI KENNEDY-GRANT – Health Pak
Jimi Kennedy-Grant was born in Rhodesia in 1971, before emigrating to New Zealand in 1978. The first job he worked was selling clothes and…
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CARMEN LEONG – SKYCITY Grand Hotel
Carmen Leong was born and raised in Malaysia, before moving to New Zealand to study over four years ago. Leong initially dreamed of becoming…
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