Michel Lamunière became chairman of Tatler Asia in 2015.

Before that, he was in Switzerland, working closely with his father, Pierre, and brother Sebastien, to transform Lausanne-based Edipresse Group from a publicly listed company focused on traditional media into a private entity, fully owned and operated by the Lamunière family, with a diverse portfolio of assets in media, real estate and e-commerce. Following this transition, he moved back to Asia to oversee the group’s activities in the region. Michel has an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain and previously worked in sales and marketing for Nestlé China, based in Beijing. He joined the family business in 2008 with a focus on developing its digital operations.

As an established financial executive, Michelle brings with her more than 20 years’ experience, and has a deep knowledge of Asia’s media industry, particularly in China and SEA. Michelle started her career at PwC South Africa, before moving to The Financial Times for 13 years, first in London and then in Hong Kong as Asia Pacific CFO. She joined the FT’s sister company Pearson Education as President, APAC Emerging Markets, where she spent six years managing a sizeable P&L in the Southeast Asia operations for the world’s largest education company.

Most recently, she co-founded a consulting and agency practice, specialising in advice and support for a wide range of content companies including Nikkei and the Financial Times, Harry Potter publisher Pottermore, and BBC Studios.

Tamara Lamunière has been in the media and publishing space for over 15 years. She was leading Generation T, a subsidiary of Tatler, a platform for the most influential members of Asia’s start-up community, as well as Front & Female, a platform for female empowerment. She was also the Chief Marketing Officer and Board Member for the Tatler Asia Group, the region’s leading luxury lifestyle media group for the last 43 years. She is also a Board Member of her family businesses in healthcare and education back in her home country of the Philippines.

With the mission to build strong talent centric organization and engaged team, Maggie leads people and HR functions for Tatler Asia. Act as a trusted partner to leadership and employees, Maggie and her team aim to effectively support business strategy and initiatives, drive talent development, and cultivate an innovative and creative culture.

Maggie has more than 20 years of human capital management experiences in Asian markets. She has adapted and practiced talent and organizational solutions through diversified experiences over various industries including hospitality, auto, and finance.

Maggie received her MA degree in management from Durham University, UK, MBA degree and BSC degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Sean Fitzpatrick began his career in journalism in 1994, when he joined the Eastern Express as entertainment editor. He then took on challenges in various media, including television, with Channel [V]; radio and newswire journalism in London; and filmmaking in Sydney. Sean returned to Hong Kong in 2003 and took the role of features editor at Tatler Hong Kong for two years before joining the start-up editorial team of Prestige Hong Kong as Associate editor. In 2007, Sean returned to Tatler Hong Kong as editor and, in 2010, was promoted to Editor-in-Chief. In 2021 he was named Regional Managing Director, Dinning & Events, to drive regional dining and event business growth.

Jet is a digital and products leader with 20 years of proven experience and success in helping organizations transform digitally while delivering high-quality consumer digital products, experiences and platforms at scale for industry-recognized organizations such as Astro, Singtel, Yahoo! and Maxis.

In his most recent role at Astro as Vice President of Digital Products, Engineering and Design, Jet led product management, software engineering and product design teams which oversaw most of Astro’s digital portfolio and touch points. Before Astro, he was Singtel’s Digital Experience and Design Director overseeing all of Singtel Group Consumer’s digital touch points. Prior to that, he held various Products Director roles at Yahoo! in Asia and USA, including helping to shape Yahoo!’s mobile and connected devices products strategy as well as leading numerous Yahoo! mobile product offerings in Asia.

Joe Zee is the global content and artistic director for Tatler Asia Group, overseeing the visual branding of the magazine and the corporate entity in print, digital and events.

During his tenure as the creative director at Elle magazine between 2007 and 2014, Zee became one of the most recognisable names outside the fashion industry by embracing social media and regularly appearing on television, both through guest spots and reality shows set at Elle. He left the magazine five years ago and headed to Yahoo Fashion where he expanded the vertical into a digital magazine of sorts, tapping into his A-list celebrity, photographer and designer connections. Since leaving Yahoo in 2017 after the company was acquired by Verizon, Zee has produced a documentary for Netflix and continued to appear on television commenting on fashion and celebrities, but had not signed onto another editorial project until Tatler.

Paco’s acute insights of media busines has been accumulated through the years working for three leading media companies Modern Media, Trends Group and Conde Nast; contribute for several prestige vertical titles including Bloomberg Business Week, Esquire, Conde Nast Traveler, Vogue and GQ, became the first Group Publisher in Conde Nast China. His most recognized establishment is the transformation of GQ China. Under Paco’s leadership, within only one year GQ China became the fastest-growing title in China market via implementing rigorous product reengineering and modern branding approach.

Paco believes that good content with authenticity is good business. Continuous Evolution as his core belief, Paco will always dare to challenge himself.

Geraldine has had 25 years of advertising and communications experience with 10 years as Managing Director at international ad agency Foote Cone & Belding and Chimera Design. Her ability to create successful teams and build lasting relationships with clients has consistency led to great work, productive employees, loyal clients and business growth for the companies she worked for. She has an incredible network of clients, talent and partners.

Equipped with more than 20 years of commercial experience over 18 years of leadership experience, Stephanie knows what it takes to navigate business challenges, overcome obstacles, and deliver results in key areas, including product development and launch; sales/marketing management; profit/loss accountability; business planning/development; market research/analysis; and revenue/profit optimisation.

Skilled in integrated marketing, advertising, sales, event management, and media planning, Stephanie is a schooled sales professional with a Bachelor Degree in Business, with a Marketing major from Queensland University of Technology.

In her previous role as Vice President of Sales in Mediacorp Pte Ltd, she has built a strong track record in the publishing industry, selling across all the media platforms of the largest broadcaster in the country – airtime on all major tv and radio channels, newspaper, OOH, new media (meWATCH.com.sg), launched new titles and platforms like ELLE and Elle.sg (JV with Hachette Fillipacci Media), ARENA, Style Luxe, Style Men, Mother & Baby (licensed from Bauer Media Group) and was commercially driving the business partnerships with new regional digital platforms KapanLagi.com (entertainment), Bridestory.com (bridal) and also managed high profit-generating large-scale events. Stephanie is trained in creating and managing the product roadmap, executing product initiatives across multiple business units, resolving business challenges, and creating solutions to deliver business value.
In her 5 years with Tatler Asia (Singapore), Stephanie has been responsible for driving the revenue through strong client management, identifying new commercial potentials and gaining market share from competition. Stephanie has been working closely and collaboratively with senior management on strategic ideas and develop actionable plans for local and respective markets to increase business potential line with the corporate growth strategy through regional expansion.

Irene Martel-Francisco has been the managing director of Tatler Philippines since 2002. She oversees all publishing and business functions of the magazine. Irene has a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Menlo College in California. She is also senior vice-president of shopping mall operator Tourist Trade and Travel Corporation and president of restaurant business Irmar Food System, positions she held before she joined Tatler Asia. Irene is an active director and trustee of several civic and charitable organisations.

April Hsu is the managing director of Tatler Taiwan. April has an in-depth knowledge of luxury brand marketing gained over 20 years in the publishing and media industry. She has held senior positions at Condé Nast and Hachette Filipacchi Taiwan.

Millie Stephanie founded the Jakarta-based Mobiliari Group more than two decades ago and it has since grown into a regional publishing powerhouse. After graduating from the University of Southern California, she worked for the campaign of a successful US politician before returning to Indonesia to start her business. Its flagship is Tatler Indonesia, which has been informing and entertaining Indonesian high society for more than 16 years. Millie is also committed to corporate social responsibility. She founded Pansophia Indonesia, a charity that houses and cares for orphans and abandoned children. She is also a WWF ambassador for SOShark and was instrumental in establishing Kkottongnae Indonesia, which assists underprivileged people in the East Nusa Tenggara area. One of Millie’s latest initiatives is to take Indonesian art to a global audience via Art Stage Jakarta.