Sigourney is an award winning beauty journalist and one of Australia's best known and highly-regarded beauty and health experts. As Editor-In-Chief of leading beauty and lifestyle website Beauticate, Sigourney hosts events and creates content for brands such as Chanel, Giorgio Armani and La Prairie. Prior to starting Beauticate, Sigourney held beauty editorships and directorships at some of Australia's leading fashion and lifestyle titles: she was Beauty & Health Director at Vogue Australia, The Sunday Telegraph's body+soul’s Beauty Expert and also worked across Glamour, RUSSH and Qantas magazines, among others.
Hillary founded Sydney-based Ocean Media in 2005 with the luxury yachting magazine, Ocean. Now one of the most recognisable and respected in the industry worldwide, Ocean reached its milestone 100th issue in 2022. With Hillary at the helm, Ocean Media has grown from a boutique publishing house to the trusted media authority in the Asia-Pacific region for luxury yachting and lifestyle.
Ocean Media opens up a world of possibilities in the luxury yacht market, partnering with the most exclusive brands and extending the lifestyle experience with OceanTV, a destination for live news and interviews, the Ocean Club for unmissable events, including the adrenaline-fuelled SailGP, and the top-tier Ocean Concierge Service.
Hillary travels regularly to all the international yacht shows, including Cannes, Monaco, Fort Lauderdale and Dubai, to keep her finger on the pulse of the latest technologies, products and services.
With nearly 20 years in the industry, Hillary has a little black book of the most influential owners, captains, designers, brands and boatbuilders to draw on, and knows the industry inside out. Few can match her understanding of the superyacht industry and the UHNW and luxury market.
Nicole is a passionate communications professional with over 15 years’ luxury lifestyle experience across design, travel, motoring, and hospitality.
Nicole loves to build brand equity whilst delivering qualitative tangible results, Nicole’s experience spans across global and Australian brands in planning and strategy, launches, CRM activations, influencer and ambassadorship campaigns, paid, earned and owned media campaigns, sponsorship and stakeholder management with unrivalled event management and guest list curation.
Past clients include Ferrari Australasia, Lexus Australia, Van Cleef & Arpels, Fendi, Aesop, Max Mara Fashion Group, LVMH Group (Dom Perignon, Belvedere Vodka, Glenmorangie, Hublot), Montblanc, The Old Clare Hotel, Jackalope Hotel Group, Elements of Byron and United Places South Yarra.
Present clients include Marriott Hotels, dexus Property Group 25 Martin Place, Celine, Fendi, Valentino, G.H Mumm Champagne, Zenith watches, Tag Heuer, W Melbourne, W Brisbane and Ritz Carlton Perth.
Nicole holds a Bachelor of Business, Major in Marketing and Public Relations from the University of Technology and has worked at Merivale Group, Firmdale Hotel Group in London, Black Communications, EVH, and is currently working at The Mint Partners.
Tiffany Farrington is a PR & Events professional who founded Social Diary in 2004, which is warmly regarded by the industry as ‘the PR Bible’. Social Diary connects PRs, brands and media and allows them to work together in a warm and friendly way. In addition, Tiffany has been the personal publicist of Australia’s much-loved Michelin starred Chef Curtis Stone for 14 years.
The service Luxury Media Group provide is unparalleled and unique in today's media landscape.
Always reliable, always prompt, always accurate. When you're busy and need the right information, fast, you know exactly who to turn to.
The community they've created is truly special too - it takes a lot of personality, knowledge and respect to bring so many people and brands and interests together. Hats off.
I have known Nick and his team for several decades and look forward to this exciting new development in the luxury industry. No doubt they will roll out their successful business model in the luxury vertical as well as they have cornered the travel space
Naomi Parry is a communications professional with over thirty years’ experience in marketing, advertising and public relations, and with unique expertise in the luxury market. Naomi was the Marketing Director of the LVMH Fashion Group and Louis Vuitton Oceania for a decade, and has for the last nineteen years run BLACK, a communications agency she founded specializing in luxury brands. She currently sits on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) and the Power Foundation Council at The University of Sydney.
Jack founded Boss Hunting, Australia's most engaged men's lifestyle publisher - presenting the coolest in gear, entertainment, travel, sport, alcohol, watches, and more.
Boss Hunting has over 250,000 Facebook Fans, 200,000 Instagram Followers, and the website receives over 1,000,000 page views every month. They've worked on campaigns with a range of clients including American Express, Jeep, Longines, Beam Suntory, Samsung, and HUGO BOSS.
I have worked extensively with Nick and Lauren over many years and am an advocate for their professionalism, integrity and innovation. Having attended IMM since its conception, I have seen how this has benefitted both media and travel operators in developing relationships and networks. International Luxury Media Marketplace is an exciting new concept, a first of its kind and will be hugely welcomed by myself and other media as a source for quality content. Based on the success of IMM, I look forward to the success and longevity of this event that will build quality relationships for luxury brands with the right media partners. As luxury brands are an essential part of our content, I welcome being a part of the Luxury Editors' Panel and to being involved in judging the awards.