Seazen Team
After completing her studies, she moved to New York, reported for various magazines and authored travel guides on her favorite metropolis. Today, she splits her time between the United States and Canada, unless she is already en route to the next adventure.
For Seazen, she writes about journeys shaped by encounters and experiences, and about places best understood on foot, with open eyes — and a healthy appetite.
As former managing director and editor-in-chief of leading industry magazines such as marmite and Salz & Pfeffer, and as editorial director at Vinum, he has built a broad, influential network across the hospitality world over more than two decades in journalism.
Willi is the author of several books, a presenter, program director, and a committed advocate for the culture of enjoyment. As a consultant and board member, he advises major companies, hotels, and restaurateurs.
Professionally, Hannes Huggel worked primarily in marketing communications and sponsorship. After several years in sports journalism, he returned to communications and later set up his own business together with Brigitte. Writing, however, never let him go. He also published a book about his adopted home, the Zürcher Weinland, titled Where Wine Lives.
Before joining Seazen, she spent more than six years at Bawa Tours & Travel GmbH, working across marketing, social media and product development. Earlier roles in the marketing world included positions at Vinted and Kempinski Hotels.
This line from Ray Bradbury left a deep impression on Christoph early on, making a career in travel almost inevitable. He completed his apprenticeship at a well-known travel agency in Aarau, followed by positions at home and abroad before spending three decades in senior roles at a major Swiss travel company. In 2025, he embarked on a new chapter and now supports SEAZEN with his extensive network across the tourism industry.
Australia and Southern Africa — especially South Africa and Namibia — are particularly close to his heart. He is equally fascinated by cruises and has explored much of the world from the decks of various ships. Yet his greatest passion is Nepal. As a volunteer member of the board of trustees of the aid organisation “Namaste”, he continues the life’s work of his mentor, supporting around 200 schoolchildren in need as well as an orphanage in Kathmandu.
Christoph still has his roots in Aargau, where he lives, but he has also found a second home in southern Alsace, where his partner resides. To clear his mind, he gets on his mountain bike and follows the trails near and far. His top recommendation: Italy’s Maremma, where sport and Italianità come together perfectly.
Today, as Creative Director and co-founder, he shapes the visual identity of the brand. His expertise extends to editorial design as well as the conception and development of podcasts and websites, for which he leads both design and visual direction.
For many years, Bernhard Krieger was Italy correspondent for the German Press Agency and several ARD radio stations in Rome. As a travel journalist, he has long been reporting not only from his second home, Italy, but also from some of the most beautiful places around the globe. In his features for Seazen, this committed bon vivant often focuses on food and wine, as well as on all kinds of sports—from golf, sailing and surfing to mountain biking and skiing. In winter, the passionate skier is invariably drawn back to the mountains. A native of Cologne, he is frequently on assignment for Seazen’s winter stories in Switzerland, the neighboring Alpine countries, and the mountains of Canada and the United States. His stories appear not only in Seazen, but also in leading newspapers and magazines, as well as in his own ski travel magazines SKI KANADA (www.ski-kanada.net) and SKI USA (www.ski-usa.net).
Friedrich Kisters combines entrepreneurial drive with a deep passion for art and culture.
Alongside his work as an inventor and founder, he is immersed in art history and its many forms of expression. Traveling through different cultural spheres has long been a source of inspiration — fueling both his artistic curiosity and his professional commitment to innovation. His vivid, exploratory approach allows him to transform impressions from art and travel into accessible, engaging ideas.
He has led international technology companies in countries such as Brazil and Belarus, while also taking on unexpected roles along the way. For several years, he served as CEO of ELITE Brazil, part of the world-renowned ELITE modeling agency — an experience that continues to inform his perspective on cultural diversity and entrepreneurial creativity.
His personal art collection ranges from antiquity and the Renaissance to contemporary works. Since this year, Friedrich Kisters has also been serving as Head of Arts at Seazen.
With more than twenty years of media experience — including roles as Publishing Manager at Red Bull Media House and Head of Sales at Axel Springer — Gordana has built a deep understanding of both traditional and contemporary publishing. Along the way, she has cultivated a broad network of authors, photographers, advertising partners and agencies.
As co-founder and Publishing Director, Seazen is far more than a job for her. It is vocation, fulfilment, challenge — and, above all, pure joy.
Today, he is more often found in nature — trekking through the Ruwenzori Mountains at the source of the Nile, heli-skiing in Alaska’s Tordrillos, or camping among the hot springs of the Sierra Nevada. He has spent nights in cave dwellings in Cappadocia and taken week-long, unhurried walks along the Camino de Santiago. In short: wherever something remarkable awaits, Uli Maybach is either there already or planning his next visit.
His work with the new-generation luxury car brand Mercedes-Maybach adds another layer to these experiences, taking him to exclusive events around the globe — from the Hôtel du Cap during the Cannes Film Festival to Pebble Beach for new vehicle unveilings.
Uli Maybach shares his unique perspectives exclusively on seazentravel.com and in the Seazen Bookazines.
Patricia is an experienced international sales and media professional with a strong passion for building long-term client partnerships, leading teams and developing innovative cross-media opportunities with clients, agencies and media brands around the world.
She spent more than twenty years in New York and London, representing leading publishers such as The Washington Post, The Straits Times in Singapore, the inflight media of Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines and Qantas, as well as Asahi Shimbun and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Most recently, she headed the London office of Axel Springer’s Media Impact.
What he enjoys most, however, are audiobooks, radio plays, video games and dubbing roles for TV series and films — sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, sometimes mystical, sometimes with a subtle wink, depending on the character.
You can also hear Stefan Barth on the Seazen Travel Podcast channels — Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Audible — where he brings our authors’ most captivating travel stories to life every two weeks.
When she’s not working on words or planning her next journey, she can usually be found outdoors with her husky mix, “Rocket”, hiking in the mountains, practicing yoga or simply enjoying a good coffee in the sun — her own little version of la dolce vita.
Her digital-nomad lifestyle blends naturally with her cultural and culinary interests and her instinct for the unfamiliar, making the balance between demanding projects and personal wellbeing both realistic and sustainable.
Christina is also a trained photographer with a distinct visual sensibility, enabling her to capture destinations around the world in both images and words.
Daniel Reichenbach has long been a source of creative inspiration. As an author, photographer and commercial filmmaker, he has spent more than forty years crafting words and images that stay with you, all while mastering the possibilities of the latest technologies.
He learned his craft at the journalism and film studio Büro Cortesi in Biel. Later, as co-owner of two commissioned film productions, he received numerous distinguished awards for his work, including the EDI for Best Camera, the Galaxy Award in New York and the Golden Dolphin at the Cannes Corporate & TV Awards, among many others.
Since 2020, he has dedicated more of his time to writing and photography. Alongside his work with Seazen, he collaborates with clients in tourism, gastronomy, watchmaking, technology and environmental fields.
Born in the former Czechoslovakia, raised in South Africa, and eventually settling in Germany, Brigita Krieger saw a lot of the world early in life. To this day, she loves discovering new countries and little-known places, reporting for Seazen about local culture, outdoor adventures, good food, and fine wines. For all her curiosity about new destinations, she also enjoys returning to places that have become dear to her—especially to Canada, where the passionate skier spends her winters, and to the Maldives. Ever since she first traveled there many years ago to go diving, she has been a regular visitor to this island paradise in the Indian Ocean. Our Maldives expert has already explored and reviewed dozens of resort islands, including for her Maldives travel magazine (www.maledivenmagazin.com).
The anthology he edited, The Secret of Taste, was awarded a silver medal by the GAD. Together with Tyrolean two-star chef Simon Taxacher, he also co-authored a cookbook.
Alongside gastronomy, his second great passion is travel. Thomas writes regularly for renowned magazines, with a particular interest in Asia and the interplay between cuisine and culture.
With the hotel connoisseur, Seazen gets a dedicated and inspiring reporter who also likes to peek behind the scenes for a deeper impression.
He travels the world on behalf of a global alliance of luxury hotels and is regarded as Switzerland’s leading hotel tester. The creators of the book The 101 Best Hotels in Germany brought him on board as consultant and spiritus rector.
Originally a business journalist, Wild has also written four biographies — all of them non-fiction bestsellers.
On the Seazen Travel podcast channels, Aurii brings our authors’ most captivating travel stories to life.
Curiosity, a spirit of discovery and a constant appetite for challenge still define Justin and his work as a professional photographer today. He loves learning about people, their cultures and the environments that shape them. He immerses himself fully wherever he goes and feels equally at home in the boardroom of a major international company, the laboratory of a pharmaceutical firm, on a mountain summit or in the most remote corners of the world.
Originally trained as an advertising consultant, Brigitte spent more than 30 years working in international advertising agencies before turning her focus to writing and travel.
Garms later became Managing Editor of Men’s Health and Runner’s World and, in 1998, founding Editor-in-Chief of Modern Living. His further editor-in-chief roles included WELT am SONNTAG (2001–2003) and Hörzu (2003–2009). From 2005 to 2009, he also oversaw Hörzu, Funk Uhr, TVneu and Bildwoche.
In 2009, he became Vice President of Business Development at Axel Springer International before moving into independent publishing and media entrepreneurship in 2010. In 2011, he was appointed Managing Director Corporate Media at Axel Springer Schweiz AG. From 2012 to 2015, he served on the company’s Management Board as Managing Director Business Media and Corporate Media. As Editor-in-Chief of Hörzu, he was also a member of the Golden Camera awards jury.
For Seazen, Thomas Garms writes about exclusive travel destinations and hotels, mobility and luxury goods.
Travel is a recurring theme in his life. Matthias has worked in international tourism for more than thirty-five years, currently as a media spokesman for a Swiss long-haul tour operator. He has explored countless countries and regions of the world on many private and professional trips.
After going back to school and studying journalism as a representative of the over-50s generation, Matthias now loves to write about travel worlds far and near. As a door to the world, writing is a matter close to his heart. He already liked grammar and spelling when he was at school. However, he believes that six out of five journalists cannot write correctly.
Matthias is a long-distance swimmer. When he's not crossing a lake, he loves cooking for friends. But the kitchen has to be tidy, so his larder is like a starting line-up for a football team. He is also a coffee drinker. For him, starting a day without coffee is like missing a penalty kick.
Roddy is a media professional with over 20 years of experience in London, New York and Geneva. He has worked at the New York Times and Business Insider, where he played a central role in driving growth and international expansion. In 2020, he founded Olympia Media Group, which provides publishing and brand consultancy and representation services globally. His expertise includes business development, media strategy, innovation and audience engagement.
She has spent a significant part of her life abroad, gathering a wide range of impressions and perspectives. She crossed the vast expanses of Australia and enriched her academic path in the Netherlands with internships in Thailand and Indonesia. These international experiences have broadened her worldview and sharpened her sensitivity to the subtleties of travel.
For Seazen, Bettina enjoys writing about the beauty hidden in the world, both grand and understated. Her travels lead her to diverse destinations and characterful hotels. She weaves her impressions into vivid stories, inviting readers to find inspiration in the wonders of our world.
