Co-Founder and C.E.O., Kai Fejér graduated from Cornell University’s famed Hotel School, spending two years following in Los Angeles, California working for commercial real estate investment brokerage firm Marcus and Millichap before relocating to Budapest, Hungary with architect husband Patrick. The two went on to build the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, Budapest, part of a small development team over the next six years. Relocating to Canada from Eastern Europe following the widely acclaimed opening of the Four Seasons, Kai took a position with high end, boutique real estate developer and land owner Talisker Corporation, with roles in marketing Talisker’s internationally reknown Talisker Club in Park City, Utah and various commercial leasing appointments. Co-Founder and C.O.O., Taylor Russell joined Madrid-based AFA Press immediately following the completion of an Economics degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, an independent communications agency producing country-specific supplements to such international media as the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times and The Economist. In this role, Taylor presented, and successfully negotiated support and advertising dollars from such international Heads of State as Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela; Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados; Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan; and Pedro Sanatan Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal; among others. She has lived in 16 countries over the course of 6 years including Venezuela, Zambia, Egypt, Lithuania, Portugal, Pakistan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, Malta, Barbados and Macau. She also contracted advertising dollars from each of the countries’ blue chip companies. Kai and Taylor are in fact sisters; the daughters of Bonnie Bickel, Founder of B.B. Bargoon’s, the widely acclaimed Canadian interior design chain for which she received numerous accolades, including recognition as one of Canada’s Top 100 Women Business Owners by Profit magazine. |
