Global TALENT Hub
KINGDOM B
DIVERSITY AND EXTRAORDINARY TALENT ARE THE BASIS OF OUR CULTURE
CULTE is a collaborations platform, which connects our members with projects, aiming at affecting social change.
Number of projects
CULTE has in the works
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Culture is the new global currency with diversity finally understood as the secret to richer teams and company offerings. Through the advance in technology, especially now after Covid, we are able to share our everyday stories, as well as our working projects, to stay connected despite our physical location or cultural differences.
The Culture Effect amplifies our stories, building partnerships and collaborations that engage audiences, both digitally and also live. Through content creation and event partnerships, we highlight and strengthen the regenerative basis of the businesses of this generation: the trifecta PEOPLE-PROFIT-PLANET.
​Our MEMBERS are creative​ talents who have been selected to work on our projects due to their unparalleled body of work, and collaborative personalities.
Our partner BUSINESSES and BRANDS are companies who chose to engage with these talents on the projects we support and develop together. One Team.
OUR
PROJECTS
CARAVANE COLLECTIVE
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TRAVEL DIARY
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SCENESTER PROJECTS
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KYF BRAND
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NANTUCKET PROJECT
03
WANDERFUEL
06
SERVICES
Gen X Marketing and Business Development executives in the epicenter of Innovation, CSR and Sustainability.
WE LEAD A GLOBAL NETWORK OF:
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Independent professionals in Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Creative Services, Media—Traditional, Digital & Social
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Artists & Collaborators
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Partners in Fashion, Lifestyle, Automotive, Travel, Wellness, Beverage & Tech Industry
the CULTE
ECO
SYSTEM
Scope of Work/Capabilities:
SMALL BUSINESS
& START-UPS
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Business Development Strategy
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Marketing – Media, Social Media & Influencer
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Partnerships
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Commercial/Sales
LARGE CORPORATIONS
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Activate specific programs and projects
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Connect & outsource to sister agencies
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Distribute & Amplify current programs
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Marketing – Media, Social Media & Influencer
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Partnerships
THE TEAM
RENATA LOPES-MERRIAM
Marketing & Partnerships
Born and raised in Brazil, Renata has lived and worked in the US and Europe, operating as a liaison between the three regions.
With one eye on the big picture and the other on strategic problem solving, she created KINGDOM B, a Marketing and Partnerships consultancy agency. Since 2010, her creativity and fearless approach to Business Development has helped her clients with collaborations, brand awareness and the monetization of ideas and projects.
Currently an Advisor for PRO-NATURA INTERNATIONAL, WATER RISING INSTITUTE, ALTUS HEALTH, and SCENESTER PROJECTS, Renata is also co-founder of KYF - Know Your Food, a plant-based, fast food alternative for kids 9-17, with a mission to shift the relationship kids have with food, health and the life in our planet.
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Experiential Marketing
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With over 20 years of experience in the fashion and lifestyle industry, Katja launched her career at the luxury fashion house HUGO BOSS in Germany. In 2002 she moved to NYC to oversee the Marketing & Communications department for HUGO BOSS AMERICAS and later DIESEL, where she was in charge of the rebranding and repositioning initiatives as the VP Marketing & PR North America.
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Now as CMO of SCEENESTER PROJECTS, Katja creates and executes some of the most inpactful and engaging guerrilla marketing campaigns in the country and abroad, including Wall Projections, Wild Posters, Street Teams, and other Experiential Marketing activations, with high level techology and data analytics, in the marketplace.
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In 2020, Katja and Renata started a new project, which will help the younger generation to eat better and smarter, while helping parents, too.
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Cultural Events & Art Tours​
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Guido Brancher understands himself as a cultural mediator. Since his move to Berlin 2017,
he creates inspiring and unique salon-style experiences and brings some of the most interesting minds around to these exploratory discussions.
He studied design and art history at PARSONS in Paris and New York, where he dove into the exuberant creativity of the post-Warholian life style. He worked as a fashion designer for houses like RYKIEL, GUY LAROCHE and CALVIN KLEIN before opening his own small couture house in Los Angeles.
On his return to Europe, he helped develop the Paris branding agency DREAM ON to acquire RENAULT, the MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY, the OPERA DE PARIS and many international TV networks, before creating the GRAND PALAIS CLUB event series.
Now working out of Berlin, he organizes cultural events and insider tours to share his passion for this vibrant city with others.
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Social Media
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Lizz Spano is a savvy New York City tastemaker and the force behind TYPE 2 CREATIVE. Lizz’s company came to life during a transitional moment in her career, when faced with a choice to continue in a corporate setting or follow her dreams of becoming a free willed, creative entrepreneur.
With a trained background in photography, and a resume with over 18 years of experience in sales and marketing, Lizz took the plunge and hasn’t looked back.
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Her SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING campaigns have grown her brand's followings on INSTAGRAM and ALL OTHER PLATFORMS multiple times over. Although she started with her passion, FOOD, she has since branched into other products, as well. Simple, Smart, affordable.
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Art Director
Creative director. Artist. Adventurer. With 20+ years of experience working at Madison Avenue advertising agencies, you may have seen Chris' branding and marketing work for some of the world's largest, most successful companies. He's done work for MICROSOFT, US AIRWAYS, launched many vehicles in the GENERAL MOTORS portfolio, and took on the challenge of a global consumer brand campaign for EXXON/MOBIL.
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Wanting to focus more on working with brands with social and environmental responsibilities, Chris founded CHAW Brand Studios. At CHAW, Chris and his team create all aspects of branding and marketing for companies looking to make the world a better place for everyone.
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Chris' influences for creating brands is born from exploring the wilds of the world, or working on his personal fine art projects in drawing and printmaking.
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Visual Communication Designer & Artist
Studied at the UCAD and IRCV in Paris and worked as Art Director for SCHOLZ & FRIENDS Advertising Agency, before opening her own creative agency FORMKOMBINAT in Hamburg, Germany.
Her work ranges from classic Corporate Design, Exhibition Design, to the development of complex orientation systems and creative concepts for large size buildings, such as stadiums, city halls, hospitals etc.
Passionate traveler and sailor, who captures her experiences in her art and creations, from children's furniture, illustrations to Raku ceramics.
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Creative Director
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Based in Paris, France, Kai von Ahlefeld is the CEO and creative director of VON AHLEFELD SARL
(aka uberraum). Trained at Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York, Kai has spent the last
20 years working in the fashion industry in Paris producing his own fashion collections and
conceptualizing and filming major events in the luxury industry for the likes of Dior, H&M, Dom Perignon
and Louis Vuitton. His own exhibition entitled “Catwalks” met with critical acclaim. Kai leads a talented and growing team of employees and freelance designers in Paris - a veritable ”agency for visual intelligence”.
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SAULO MADRID
Artist
Saulo Madrid’s art practice blurs the boundaries of the art world’s normative labels. Madrid’s practice focuses on areas of aesthetics and augmented architecture and the study of gesture and materiality from computational and phenomenological perspectives.
Madrid specializes in the creation and mediation of content across multi-platform echo-systems that include print, video, film, architectural, and responsive and augmented installations – integrating collaborations with an international scope of artists, architects, programmers, designers, galleries and museums, including: The Ground Magazine, Samsung, Exhibition Magazine, Domus, Alex Wang/Condé Nast, Rick Owens/Owenscorp, RAD HOURANI/MIT Media Lab, Topological Media Lab, Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA), Grand Palais/Galeries Nationales and the Palais Royal/Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Ministère de la Culture in Paris. Madrid holds a BA in Architecture History from Harvard University, a Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies from Concordia University and a master’s in Philosophy of Aesthetics and Phenomenology from La Sorbonne.
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Designer
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Gagica is one of the few people on the planet who cares as deeply about a client's brand identity and communication as they do. He thinks strategically, designs conceptually, and has the rare ability to consistently achieve brilliance no matter how tight the deadline. Gagi’s talent in both graphic design and video production is unique and enables him to create powerful and memorable visual identity systems across all media.
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TATIANA DUDYEZ
Entrepreneur
Tatiana Dudyez is a fiercely feminine entrepreneur and executive advisor, high performance coach, and professional speaker on Transcending Achievement for a Higher Version of Performance. She teaches top achieving individuals and organizations how to thrive by prioritizing purpose for lasting success. When people thrive, organizations grow.
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