ANN RANDRUP
FOUNDER AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Guidance emerges where clarity, presence, and practice meet.
Ann holds a Master's Degree in Literature with a minor in Copyright Law and Marketing. She has worked as a communication consultant with the Scandinavian PR agency Geelmuyden-Kiese. She is a yoga and meditation teacher and ICF certified Life Coach and former co-owner and Operations Manager of Casa Nilaya Ibiza. She is the founder of Global Mentoring Walk Denmark.
THOMAS ERMACORA
CO-FOUNDER, STRATEGY, DESIGN AND EXPERIENCE DIRECTOR
The world is facing a poly-crisis of disconnected well-being and spiritual fragility.
Thomas Ermacora is an award-winning futurist, city architect, creative director, and regenerative civilisation visionary. For the past 25 years he has been a polymath devoted to sustainable design, community wellbeing, and climate intelligence, embedding himself into wicked problems using provocative creativity and crowdsourcing to solve collaboratively.
PAUL HUGHES
FOUNDING PARTNER AND BRAND DIRECTOR
Narratives shape coherence in a fragmented world.
Paul Hughes brings three decades of experience in brand leadership and narrative design. His own spiritual journey informs his work, ensuring invitation, depth, and a search to express the sacred. Guided by the principle that we walk the spiritual path with practical feet, he weaves narrative and the spiritual quest into a coherent frame for Inner Sanctum.
OLIVIA RICHLI
HOTEL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
Olivia’s career has been devoted to opening, running some of the world’s most eclectic, spectacular, stylish and service-oriented hotels. She spent 20 years with Amanresorts opening and operating three of Adrian Zechas properties: Amanjiwo, Amangalla and Aman Venice. Amangalla giving her a valuable experience with Sri Lanka as she spent two years opening and 8 years operation Amangalla in Galle. Furthermore Olivia spent two years in the Indian Ocean opening Soneva Jani in the Maldives followed by four years in the UK launching Heckfield Place.
CHALANA PERERA
REGENERATION CONSULTANT
Chalana work with investors, developers, operators and policy-makers to regenerate long-term value by repositioning real estate, hospitality and tourism assets. Along side working for Inner Sanctum Chalana is advising public (government) and private sector tourism stakeholders in Asia, Africa and North America.
Partners
STUDIO ERMACORA
Studio Ermacora is a creative outfit instrumentalising the knowhow and network of founder and futurist Thomas Ermacora.
Creative polymath, experience curator and impact angel, Ermacora has worked for 25 years at the edge of movements to give them momentum and shape. He has collaborated with leading players and iconoclasts to form an unusual body of work always focused on how design and storytelling can support communities, cities and corporations towards a more regenerative civilisation.
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WATG
WATG Advisory is a strategic practice operating at the intersection of global hospitality, placemaking and investment foresight.
Drawing on decades of architectural intelligence from WATG’s worldwide portfolio, the advisory unit translates deep sector knowledge into actionable strategies for developers, governments and brand leaders. Its work blends market insight, design sensibility and long-horizon thinking to shape destinations that endure — guiding projects from early vision through to positioning, feasibility and experiential definition, always with an eye on cultural integrity, economic resilience and the evolving patterns of travel and living.
BIG
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) is an architecture and design studio known for its audacious synthesis of pragmatism and imagination.
Operating across scales from furniture to cities, BIG approaches each project as an opportunity to rethink how we live, work and coexist with our environments. The practice combines sculptural clarity with playful experimentation, folding sustainability, technology and human experience into bold yet practical solutions. With a portfolio spanning continents and typologies, BIG has become a catalyst for new spatial possibilities — shaping landmarks, neighbourhoods and future-oriented infrastructures that challenge convention while remaining grounded in real-world constraints and opportunities.
Friends
Sebastian Escarrer
Mark Hyman
Michael Acton Smith
Christopher Stafford
Rob Sykes
Rob is Associate Vice President and Director of Strategy at WATG. He is an experienced real estate economist with extensive advisory experience. He has delivered a broad range of projects including hotels and resorts, branded and unbranded residential real estate, golf clubs, spas and visitor attractions. Through his comprehensive experience and market research capability, Rob equips developers, investors, hospitality operators and other stakeholders with the tools needed for effective project planning.
Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke is a Danish architect and the founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). He studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and spent time at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, before working at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam from 1998–2001. Ingels is known for a design philosophy that blends innovation, sustainability and a playful sense of experimentation — often described as "hedonistic sustainability."