Expert
Experienced
Engaged

From its London base and Cape Town studio, Luxury Branding’s closely knit team of consultants, designers and project managers helps luxury brands engage purposefully with affluent global audiences.

Piers Schmidt

Founder

Vanessa De Nardi

Senior Consultant

Amber Humphrey

Senior Consultant

Brian Bainbridge

Design Director

Georgina Bennett

Consultant

Danica Ricciardi

Senior Designer

Sarah Bartlett

Associate consultant

Craig Allen

Associate Consultant

Tim Watson

Associate Consultant

Alex Giacchetti

Associate Consultant

Advisory

Luxury Branding is a strategic advisor specialising in generating sustainable brand value. Its principal experience is in the ultra-competitive premium segments of the tourism, travel, hospitality and residential real estate sectors.

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Agency

With a unique blend of ‘calculated creativity’,
Luxury Branding helps ambitious organisations to define and express how they are special, different, and better: special for their affluent customers, different and better than the competition.

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Ventures

Piers Schmidt and Ian R Douglas of Phoenix Global are the Co-Founders of Kingham Leigh.
This dynamic new partnership has been created to design, develop and operate innovative hospitality projects in Europe and beyond.

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