People of NomadMania
These are the people without whom NomadMania would not be possible.
Core Team
Orest Zub 🇺🇦
Partner. Online entrepreneur and blogger. Semi-pro tennis player. Visited over 120 UN countries.
Daniel Zagrodzki 🇵🇱
IT consultant / developer. For work – loves IT; in spare time – loves all outdoor activities.
Ruth Oyindamola Folarin 🇿🇦
Secretary / Content Manager. Highly organised and detail oriented. In love with fashion and Africa.
Eugene Petrus 🇺🇦
Marketing manager. He is the biggest fan of his pet and a travel star Traveling Chapati.
Yaroslav Ingulskiy 🇺🇦
Frontend IT / Web developer. Coffee lover and fan of hard rock music.
William Obinyah Tetteh 🇬🇭
Associate. William is funny, open-minded, gentle and loves to discover.
Executive Committee
Mette Ehlers Mikkelsen 🇩🇰
Chair of the Committee. Mette is a professional board member and 3rd generation of four generations of women travellers.
Dondon Bales 🇵🇭 🇦🇺
Dondon circumnavigated the world three times, and authored the travel book “Gala: Adventures of the Most Well-Traveled Filipinos”.
Thomas Buechler 🇨🇭
Swiss traveller/globetrotter from the canton of Luzern. He has lived almost half his life in the Philippines.
Eleonora Gromov 🇰🇿 🇩🇪
Born and raised in Kazakhstan before she moved to Germany at the age of 15. She started to travel by herself very early, her first solo trip being to Italy.
Lucy Hsu 🇺🇸
Born and raised in California’s Silicon Valley, a daughter of Vietnamese refugees, pursuing a career in educating children in underserved communities.
Kostiantyn Liorek 🇺🇦
Ukrainian globetrotter who is currently living in Poland due to the situation in his native country. He has lived in a number of countries in the past.
Cameron Mofid 🇺🇸
American traveller of Egyptian-Iranian origin who is currently in the midst of his quest to visit every country in the world.
Khadija Musa 🇰🇪
Somali descent, born in Kenya and left to the US as a teenager she never dreamed of becoming a “world traveler” but eventually did.
Slawek Muturi 🇵🇱
Half-Polish, half-Kenyan traveller who has visited all 193 countries in the world at least twice.
Anna-Katri Raiha 🇫🇮
A solo female traveller and the first woman in Finland to visit every country in the world.
Yui Pow Redford 🇬🇧 🇸🇬
UK-based Singapore native who completed the UN 193 in 2017, becoming the first Asian woman to achieve the goal and the first Singaporean.
Read more about the Executive Committee and each of its’ members here on our blog.
Sustainable Travel Committee
Dondon Bales 🇵🇭 🇦🇺
Head of the NM Sustainable Travel Advocacy Committee based in Australia.
Anna-Katri Raiha 🇫🇮
A solo female traveller and the first woman in Finland to visit every country in the world.
Boris Kester 🇳🇱
Visited all the countries in the world and is convinced that sustainability should be high on the agenda of the (extreme) traveler community.
Billy Offland 🇬🇧
The youngest verified UN Master on NM and is always travelling with a focus on biodiversity.
Gunnar Garfors 🇳🇴
Visited all the countries in the world – twice. The Norwegian author has written several documentary books.
Verification Committee
Thomas Büchler 🇨🇭
Minister of Internal Surveillance. Head of the Verification Committee.
Kostiantyn Liorek 🇺🇦
Ukrainian globetrotter, a historian by education, he especially admires World Heritage sites and places of high historical importance.
Erik Futtrup 🇩🇰
One of the biggest Danish travellers, a good planner and organiser.
Yannik Graf 🇩🇪
A young traveller from Germany with a strong desire for freedom.
Alumni Members
Milana Bojinović 🇧🇦
Executive Manager. Scuba diver, nature lover, under travelled.
Tor Anders Birkenes
Wojciech Fedoruk 🇵🇱
Executive Committee and Vice-Minister of Internal Relations. Showing the world to his children. Fan of polar regions.
Artem Golubchak
Designer. Artem is a web developer, designer, traveler and digital nomad from Ukraine.
Gianni Bianchini
Pirkko Schildt
Finland Ambassador. Travel and stories from travels. Travelling duo with my husband.
Steve Buckley
Nicola Coratella
Ric Gazarian
Jack Goldstein
A. Mehmet Haksever
Lars Jensen
Samer Kawar
Online Operations Minister. Wanderluster. Architect. Urbanophile. San Franciscan. Sketching my way around the world.
Markus Lundgren
Executive Committee and Ambassador. Restless traveller wanting to learn from other world views.
Gina Morello
Charity Development Minister.
Redzuan Rahmat
External Relations Minister. Part-time traveller with a penchant for travel to unrecognized countries and unusual destinations.
Mike Weiss
Community Development Executive. Curious by nature, anthropologist wannabe, fueled by unusual destinations.
JoAnn Schwartz
WHS Minister. Focused on the less visited and unusual parts of the world.
Bill Wohlrab
Communications and News Minister. An optimistic citizen of the world who longs for the open road.
Grigori Yeghiazaryan
Harri Tuomola
Minister of Major Lists. Fan of borders and lists. Native of Finland, currently residing in Mitrovica.
Founder
Harry Mitsidis
Founder. Global nomad, bowling, aviation, statistics, Eurovision Song Contest fan!
