People of NomadMania
These are the people without whom NomadMania would not be possible.
Core Team
Orest Zub 🇺🇦
Managing Partner
Online entrepreneur, overlander. Semi-pro tennis player, blogger.
Daniel Zagrodzki 🇵🇱
IT consultant / developer
For work – loves IT; in spare time – loves all outdoor activities.
Yaroslav Ingulskyi 🇺🇦
Coffee lover and fan of hard rock music.
Viktoriia Ovcharenko 🇺🇦
Software developer
Curious programmer, avid reader, passionate about space, always striving for excellence.
Pedro Peticov 🇧🇷
Travel Experience Manager
Driven by curiosity and attracted by what’s different. Love connecting people.
Ola Salama 🇱🇧
Secretary
A lover … earth, books, music, old places…. we are all one 💙
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 four 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.
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.
Jacquelyn Kunz 🇺🇸
Worldly, cultured, NomadMania’s Most Intrepid Traveller of 2022.
Yannik Graf 🇩🇪
A young traveller from Germany with a strong desire for freedom.
Scholarship Committee
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.
Cameron Mofid 🇺🇸
American traveller of Egyptian-Iranian origin who is currently in the midst of his quest to visit every country in the world.
Ed Hotchkiss 🇺🇸
American traveller and the founder of ExploringEd.com, a travel and photography blog.
Read more about the NomadMania Scholarship Programme here.
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.
Geography Committee
Harry Mitsidis 🇬🇷
Founder. Global nomad, bowling, aviation, statistics, Eurovision Song Contest fan!
Dietmar Cerjak 🇦🇹 🇸🇮
Seeks to experience the world fully, eager to see, taste, and feel everything. He dreams of crossing mountains, sailing the Seven Seas, and discovering unknown territories.
James Coyne 🇱🇹 🇮🇪
James, born in the UK with Irish and Lithuanian roots, loves maps and exploring. He travels to many places and wants to see more of the world.
Katelyn Jarvis 🇺🇸
Founder of the non-profit “Peace Stamps.” and aims to enhance cultural understanding and make a positive impact through her journeys.
Dmitry Malov 🇷🇺
Born in Magadan, Russia, at that time — USSR. So at first, the only way of travelling possible for me was by reading adventure books and studying maps. Seen then, a huge fan of remote islands, micronations, and the last surviving scheduled ships.
Erik Jelinek 🇨🇿🇬🇧
Raised in Scotland with studies in France and Germany, embraced travel early. At 23, he embarked on a global journey, intending a year but returning after three, captivated by the world’s wonders.
Mikael Staffas 🇸🇪
Since the 1980s, he has has been exploring countries and regions, setting a goal in 1983 to visit every country before retirement, averaging four new countries annually.
Vassilis Stamatelopoulos 🇬🇷
With over 36 years in the Hotel & Travel industry, this professional understands the significance of travel for relaxation and cultural connection.
Alumni Members
Milana Bojinović 🇧🇦
Executive Manager. Scuba diver, nature lover, under travelled.
Eugene Petrus 🇺🇦
Marketing manager. He is the biggest fan of his pet and a travel star Traveling Chapati.
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
Tor Anders Birkenes
Minister for 193. Electrical engineer and hobby traveller exploring our beautiful world.
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!