Marianne Olavesen-Stabb
Founder & President
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Marianne is a versatile operational developer with thirty years of industry knowledge. She has a natural charisma with people and international experience of setting up and managing successful five-star aesthetic companies. Marianne is also a qualified aesthetic academy director having set up multiple academies and developed e-learning platforms up to ITEC level 5. She has experience with concept planning, program & treatment protocols, management, personnel structure & development. She is articulate and comfortable in all milieu.​
* 30 years in aesthetic health & beauty
* Director of aesthetic skincare operations
* Operational structure & management consultant
* Treatment & product developer
* Training developer
* Designer and former director of the Grand Hotel Spa, Oslo; Norway’s most exclusive spa
* Former Brand Manager for Pharma Nord, Denmark ('Evelle')
* Former Head of Health & Wellbeing Product Testing for Norway’s ‘TV2 Hjelper Deg' ('TV2 Helps You’)
* Health & Wellbeing Specialist for TV2’s ‘Good Morning Norway’
* Contributor to ‘The Beauty Bible’ - #1 bestseller in Norway
* Finalist in Cosmopolitan’s 1998 ‘Women of Achievement’ awards
* Former Beauty Editor of Cotswold Life magazine
Paul Olavesen-Stabb
Co-Founder and Group CEO
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Paul is a Chief Executive Officer and Board Executive Director with over 30-years of experience in corporate level management including aesthetic companies. He is a strategic business planner, team leader and effective people manager with international experience of setting up and managing successful aesthetics and media companies. Paul is finance focused and has worked in the UK, USA, Norway and the Caribbean. He holds a double Masters Degree in Business (MBA hons) from ESCP-EAP, Paris, one of Europe’s leading business schools.
Paul has produced a variety of feasibility studies covering ‘if, what and how’ a corporate model should be structured. He has experience with programs & protocols; management & personnel structure and development; and management systems to include procedures, reporting and budget structure.
He has also worked with concept planning & positioning and asset building to include brand creation, adoption and / or customisation. He can develop new revenue streams as well as provide continuity and development in existing business relationships.
“I believe in the process of leading others to lead themselves. The focus of any success in which I am involved will be on the team as opposed to on me personally, as my own strengths in management will be multiplied by the successes of those around me”.
Paul Olavesen-Stabb
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“He has the initiative and analytical skills to challenge the existing order and to replace it with something better”
Ron Rice, Founder, Hawaiian Tropic