WXO Team
- The WXO is run by a growing team of writers, editors, designers, developers, visual researchers.
james wallman
CEO
Experience evangelist, strategist, designer, and author. Clients range from Accor to Zurich, via Disney, HSBC, IDEO, KPMG, Kuoni, Marriott, the National Portrait Gallery. Written two international bestselling books on experiences: Stuffocation (2015) & Time And How To Spend It (2019) - which the Financial Times named a 'Book Of The Year'. Given talks from the Royal Academy to the Royal Society for the Arts, Google HQ, 10 Downing Street, TEDxManchester, TEDxLondon School of Economics.
Olivia Squire
Head Of Content
Award-winning editor and writer who makes readers care about subjects from gas mains replacement (really) to climbing a mountain with a Japanese monk while dressed as a ghost (pics on request). Most recently the Print Editor-in-Chief at global travel and lifestyle publication SUITCASE Magazine, where in addition to putting together each quarterly issue, she hosted dinner parties, panels and workshops and tried to make thoughtful travel a "thing".
Tizz Raj
Brand advisor
Award-winning content and creative strategist at IDEO, the BBC, McCann Erickson, JWT, Mindshare, Publicis. At the BBC, she proposed a transmedia storytelling approach to increase Top Gear’s commercial value by elevating the brand’s editorial ambitions in innovative ways. At IDEO, she prototyped an AR location-based app that offered place-relevant pop culture content for its community in collaboration with a major European broadcaster.
Fabiën Vlems
Operations & Communications
Armed with a Masters in Experiences from Breda University, and after a busy year in New York creating events across the US, Fabiën now runs our operations and communications. This comment by a WXO member sums up Fab's impact: "I’m fairly certain Fabiën Vlems never sleeps. It's as if she’s made a pact with some mythical operations deity, always ready to tackle my dumb questions, user-error disasters, or the sudden need for introductions to people I didn’t even know existed. She's like the omnipresent operations guru we all need but definitely don’t deserve."
Jessica Smith
Visual Editor
Jessica is a freelance brand consultant and visual editor with 6 years experience working at The Future Laboratory both editorially at LS:N Global across wellness, beauty, food & drink and brand-side in content strategy and communications to help future-proof organisations. Following her Masters in Trend Forecasting at Polimoda Institute of Design and Marketing in Florence, Jessica worked at Telegraph Events as a Marketing Executive on health and fitness shows.
Rory Brown
Strategic Advisor
An award-winning freelance travel journalist and editorial consultant who’s reported on everything from rave cruises in Miami to birdwatching in the Singaporean jungle and fossil hunting in Dorset. Previously in-house at British Airways’ High Life and Condé Nast Traveller magazines, she writes on emerging trends, extraordinary hotels, hospitality innovation, design and nature for a huge range of print and digital titles.
Lucy Shaw
Writer & researcher
Former editor of The Drinks Business magazine, Lucy is a freelance editor and writer specialising in food, wine and travel with 15 years of experience in the drinks industry. Having started out as editorial assistant at Decanter magazine, she has written for the likes of Newsweek, GQ, Marie Claire and the Evening Standard, and has been shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer of the Year award four times.
Champ Camba
Developer
Champ is a WordPress plugin developer based in the Philippines. Currently, a lead developer at Ultimate Member( The #1 User Profile & Membership Plugin for WordPress ). He has 10 years of experience in developing WordPress membership and community sites. Champ is a volunteer at Food Not Bombs.
Paul Oswell
Writer
Based in New Orleans, USA, Paul is a travel and culture writer, and comedian.
Mayursinh Vadher
Designer
Visual designer and the lead designer of the WXO logo, awards and website. Based in Gujarat, India, and has collaborated with start-ups to design products for PropTech and EdTech industries. Highly interested in VR design.
Stephanie Sy-Quia
Writer
A poet and a journalist, Stephanie wrote many articles in the WXO's early days. Formerly a journalist at Monocle, her first book of poetry is out late 2021.
Jack Morrell
Developer
Based in Madrid, Jack builds beautiful looking websites.
We're hiring!
- We're actively looking to hire people to help us expand our presence in Asia at present:
- Membership Growth Executive - to actively grow the WXO community. Opened to membership in July 2021, we already have 700+ members in 38 countries, in sectors from AR to immersive, from UX to retail. But we've only just got started. We'd love someone to grow our membership to thousands in more than 100 countries.
- Interested in working closely with the CEO to build the WXO in one of these roles? Email [email protected] for more details.
