Who's Who

Annick BRANTONNE DE NOUGAREDE
Posted in Bangui, Central Africa, Annick was born into a military family. Her father and grand-father were both officiers. At the end of her schooling, she becomes an international model for the Catherine Harlé agency. She will model for 10 years. She then lives a very cosmopolitan life, seconding her husband around the world as he is first appointed young diplomat, then ambassador. She develops a passion for the new technologies in the beauty and aesthetics field, and decides to put to good use her experience and her acquaintanceships. She speaks English, Spanish and Chinese. In 2000, Annick opens up a consultancy and public relations agency : Kalista Consult. She has worked to develop spa and aesthetic projets with India, China and especially Uruguay.
Gregory MOTA	gmota@wanadoo.fr
Active in the Wellness industry since 1999, Gregory MOTA has specialised in Spa and wellness establishment design in partnership with several international consultants. Seeking to develop a new and personalised approach to the client/designer relationship, Gregory MOTA created the ID SPA company that is present in both France and Central Europe.
Benoît CREUS	info@verre-et-quartz.fr
After having studied engineering at ICAM and after a 3rd cycle in Business Management (IEFSI), Benoît CREUS has decided to create companies devoted to the distribution of aesthetic and fitness products. General Manager of ‘VERRE & QUARTZ’ since 1994, he introduces and develops new concepts oriented towards the managing of humid ambiences. Today, ‘VERRE & QUARTZ’ has many installation references where humidity and heat must be perfectly mastered. His company is called upon for: project feasibility studies, establishment of blueprints and estimates, installation, equipment maintenance and after sales servicing.
Nelly GROSJEAN	info@nellygrosjean.fr
Nelly GROSJEAN, passionate of plants and a naturopath for over 30 years, has written numerous books on aromatherapy and gives confrences throughout the world on the benefits of essential oils, being healthy naturally, environment protection and biological agriculture. She is considered in the U.S. as a « woman of passion », an « organic woman farme” and “the" holistic doctor” ! She creates her topof-the-line products and aromatic concepts under different labels such as ‘Vie’Arôme’, ‘Biossentiel by Nelly Grosjean’, ‘AromaCocoon’ – the Japanese Zen space, and other jobbing products. In 2005, she is the initiator of the ‘Biomondiale-starshower’ foundation working, through art and creativity, to open up hearts and to instigate a more ethical and ecological personnal approach in favor of our planet’sfuture.
Patrick PARIS	antagua@wanadoo.fr
Degree in engineering; DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) Doctoral degree in physics. Formerly Director of the Water and Housing Division for CSTB ( Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment/Scientific and Technical Center for the Building Industry) commissioned to effect certification and standardization. Since 2003, Director of ANTAGUA, a company providing audits, diagnoses, water treatment, assistance, consultant services, and training for hospitals, clinics, retirement homes, apartment and industrial buildings and of course thermal resorts, swimming pools, Spas and hotels. Patrick PARIS is also President of the Training Comission and Director of Education for the UAE (Union des Entreprises d’Affinage de l’Eau/ Union of Enterprises for Water Refinement) an organization of French professionals with activities related to water.
Mireille BARREAU	mireille@ressourcea.com
Mireille BARREAU, a balneology expert-consultant for about 15 years, has joined the UNET (French organisation of spas) as the General Secretary person, following the AFNOR initiative and she led several quality expertises in France and abroad. She is now managing RESSOURCEA, and delivering consultancy and development services for all health, beauty and wellness market activities related to water (thermoludism, thalassotherapy, spas), she remains highly attentive to quality approach of all premises’ conception, launch and operation.
Galya ORTEGA	galya.ortega@free.fr
Woman of passion with many talents, Galya ORTEGA is above all a therapist. For 25 years she has travelled the world receiving training from the greatest masters in very energising and traditional massage techniques. She is a woman of resources and for 15 years has also been creating treatment protocols for the largest cosmetic brands. She also accompanies Spas in Paris and elsewhere (Caudalie, Spa Cinq Mondes, Spa Mosaïc and Thalgo). In addition to all of this she writes books on massages, a rite-of-passage novel and an oracle. All of this has an underlying theme: self-fulfilment in harmony, other peoples’ tastes and styles and life.
Pascale BROUSSE	brousse.pascale@wanadoo.fr
After having spent 9 years in the Sales and Marketing Department of a big cosmetic group, Pascale becomes an independant, in 2000, as a « trendsetter ». She travels all over the world looking for future trends and life styles, and discovering new products (Japan, USA, UK, Australia…). She can thus gives companies ideas and creative clues in order for them to create tomorrow’s products and centers. She specializes in wellness & nature in all shapes and forms (nutrition, beauty, plants, massages, alternative medicines, therapies...). Furthermore, she is training to be a coach in order to help people during the changing periods of their lives, by being either a guide or a catalyst.
Stephane LAMBERT	stephane@belcompanies.com
Co-founder of « BEL Companies » and creator of « AQUARA Treatments & Lifestyle ». Stephane has been living in Asia for the past 10 years. He has seen the birth and the development of the Spa phenomenon in the field. He is a supplier as well as an operator and has taken advantage of Thailand’s leadership in the development of a modern spa concept to totally invest himself. Active member of the first Board of Directors of the Thai Spa Association (2003-2005), he has participated in the organisation of the Thai Spa industry, and its representation abroad. After having thought out, then organized, and even sometimes directly managed, his clients Spas, he creates « Aquara Spa & Skincare », the first Thai « Historical Day Spa ». It’s a 1000m2 establishment, offering top-of-the-line French aesthetic care treatments in a comforting and exotic setting, as well as traditional care treatments, including a selection of massages created especially for the spa. Today, he has developed a spa concept that combines Western rigour with Asian sensuality, as well as spa products (including a complete line of professional massage oils) in partnership with French and Swiss professionals and inspired by the Asian wellness culture. He is also the administrator of BEL Companies in Bangkok, parent house of « AQUARA Treatments & Lifestyle ». More infos on www.belcompanies.com, www.oil4massage.com, www.royalthaibath.com , www.aquaraspa.com
Marie Pierre MARTIN CHARPENEL	contact@architectesassocies.com
Interior architect for the past 13 years, for the last 6 years, Marie-Pierre MARTIN CHARPENEL has specialised in creating Spas. She currently has a number of references in France and abroad: Morocco, Japan or Russia. She has also collaborated on a number of Spa studies where her artistic sensitivity and her profound sense of harmony have contributed added value. Marie Pierre lives and works at Saint Jean Cap Ferrat (Côte d’Azur); in 2003, she joined the ARTEC Company, an architecture and design partnership.
Myriam VERGER	myriam.verger@free.fr
After having worked in marketing and public relations for over ten years in various companies and in an add agency, in France as well as in Great Britain, Myriam Verger has gone back to school at Celsa and has obtained a master’s degree in relational marketing and public relations. She has done studies on the Spa industry for Club Méditerranée, has met with and interviewed the big names on the market, has visited over twenty different places and is doing a qualitative study on Parisian Spa clients. She has just published a study giving facts and figures of the Spa market as well as an analyze of client expectations, perceptions and motivations. This study can be bought and is complete with recommendations.
Dr François MICHEL
Dermatologist since 1986, Dr. MICHEL started working with laser as of 1987. He has written articles for medical magazines about lasers and aesthetics and he gives numerous confrences around the world. This is why it is he that writes the final report of the Anti aging World Conferences since its creation in 2003, which has opened him up to anti-aging medecine and wellness medecine.
Raoul Andrews SUDRE	ISPARS@comcast.net
Raoul Andrews SUDRE is the President of the Aspen Spa Management Corp. and Director of the International Spa Associates Inc. Both these companies specialize in Designing, Equipping and Managing Spas throughout the world. With a presence on all five continents, these companies enjoy particular renown in the hotel and « Resort » fields. Once a professor at the Cornell University in the USA, Mr SUDRE also acts as a consultant to several Spa Academies. Mr. SUDRE gives seminars on various Spa topics throughout the world and acts as an adviser to governments and Ministries for Tourism. He has also written a number of articles on Spas for several magazines in the USA, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Philippe MAGNE	philippe.magne1@bluewin.ch
A graduate from the Lausanne hotel school, Philippe Magne has specialised in the Wellness industry, starting his career with Holmes Place in Geneva. He then joined the luxury hotel sector in Dubai in the position of business development manager for the Six Senses Spa at the Madinat Jumeirah. Philippe Magne now heads the Wellness Centre run by the Raffles Le Montreux Palace in Switzerland and gives seminars on spa management at the Glion hotel school.
Olcay DANISMAN
Honorary Foreign Trade Adviser for France, Olcay DANISMAN works both in the south of France and in Turkey where he has participated in the development of Thalassatherapy, Hydrotherapy and Spa activities as a quality consultant. Through his company DATER, he offers the ‘French know-how’ (experts, equipment, French products) to Turkish investors in order to help develop bilateral relationships between France and Turkey.
Jean-Marc ORTEGA	jm.ortega@noos.fr
Dedicated coach for managing directors and specialised in team dynamics and development, Jean-Marc ORTEGA is managing the French “Institut Equilibre et Performance”. Psychotherapist and trainer Educator, he is teaching coaching methods at Paris VIII University in the DESU coaching programmes (post-graduation studies). For about fifteen years, he has developed performance models and outstanding strategies customised for both competitive sports and realm of business. Editor in the Dragon magazine and writer, he published seven books related to philosophy and martial arts practice, personal development and Coaching
Erwan MADEC	tsm@thalgo.com
After having studied literature, obtained a diploma in Political Sciences and a masters degree in public management, Erwan discovered the world of thalassatherapy and was, for 10 years, the Head Manager for the Atlantic and Mediterranean coast centers. irecteur de centre sur la côte Atlantique et en Méditerranée. At the end of 2001, the THALGO executives asked him to be the Head Manager for the new coaching structure, the THALGO SPA MANAGEMENT, created for the spas and thalassatherapy designers, partners of the group. 4 years of human exchanges and adventures, during the creations and the projects in over 20 countries, has able him to confront the industry’s ‘French Touch’ to the international emergence of the spa industry, especially in the anglo-saxon countries. In the field, he coordonates the ‘help missions’ for design and launching of new centers, in France and abroad, surrounded by a pluridisciplinary and very specialized 13-people team.
Bruno QUEYREL	nextrade@collection-france.com
Since the end of the 70’s, Bruno QUEYREL has been observing the global markets of the cosmetic industry and brings consultancy services to companies. He participated in the 30 Glorious of the French industry and we asked him to write a Frame of Mind letter for us.
Aldina DUARTE RAMOS
Her experience of luxury hotels began with the Le Bristol Hotel, Paris, Palais Parisien, where she was in charge of the Southern Europe market, promoting and marketing the establishment’s events. Very soon, she was cultivating links with the anne sémonin beauty workshop that formed part of the hotel with the aim of developing the treatment and beauty range alongside the hotel product (Spa Suites, beauty consultancy). She was subsequently contacted by Mrs Sémonin and took over as Head of Marketing responsible for promoting the anne sémonin brand on the international market. The object then consisted in offering turnkey Spas to hotels. In 2004, she joined the Marketing Tourism & Leisure division of the Accor Group as the Spa Product Manager. It was here that she created the LeSpa brand universe, deploying the brand on the international market. She is currently in charge of Resort & Spa hotel international marketing activities for the SOFITEL chain.
Docteur Dominique HOAREAU
Medical doctor, Dominique HOAREAU has exercised in an independent medical centre a holistic approach combining several therapeutic tools before choosing preventing medicine. Previously Chief of Staff in Thalassotherapy, he is now working at the Richelieu**L (by theFrench Re Island). He occasionally works as a consultant to produce and develop marine nutritious complements. Additionally an author, he wrote two books: “Apprivoisez votre stress” (published by Organisation Editions) dedicated to help people managing their stress, and “Les Therapies Marines” (Marine Therapies, published by DANGLES editions).** Regularly invited by radios and TV programs, he co-organises several symposiums related to nutrition and marine treatments: “Nutrition Santé Mer” at Granville (member of the scientific committee), MEDEC (Symposium “Mer et Santé 2003”).

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