Riccardo Maffey
Managing Editor
Riccardo Maffey, member of the British Chartered Institute of Journalists, joined Globusz in 2005. He was educated at the London Institute of World Affairs and the University of Essex, where he gained an MA. He worked as a feature writer, commentator and presenter for the BBC Italian Section, and both as a London correspondent and as a visiting correspondent for the Italian Swiss Radio, broadcasting and interviewing, as well as from London, from Dublin, Belfast, Rome and the US. Riccardo was senior economics editor with the United States Information Service in Rome, foreign affairs editor with the financial daily newspaper Il Globo of Rome, program organizer and chief producer of the Radio of the Daily American in Rome, contributing editor from London on the daily newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport of Milan, London correspondent of the political daily newspaper Paese Sera of Rome. Riccardo, an Italian-born British national, lives with his wife, Laura, in England.
Petre Mamara
eProduction Manager
Petre Mamara was born in Romania, eight years after the end of the Second World War. He grew up in the picturesque Şuşiţa Valley, south of the Vâlcan’s Mountains in south-west Romania, and was educated at the local school of his native village of Curpen in the Gorj District. He left at fifteen, when he went to Galaţi, in the eastern part of Romania, for an apprenticeship in electrotechnology.
As he qualified as an electrical engineer, he attended evening classes at a continuing education institute, enrolled in the baccalaureate curriculum. Petre had always been interested in literature and so kept writing poems and essays, one of which — on George Coşbuc’ s poetry — won him a literary prize. In 1974 he married and settled in Bucharest, but six years later he left with his wife for Australia where he has lived ever since. Unfortunately, a spinal cord injury made him disabled in 2000, but Petre did not give in: he fought back, emotionally, going on with his work as a poet (some of his works are available at the Library of Congress) and translating Mihail Eminescu’s poems into English. However, in June 2003, he had the misfortune of loosing his wife, who died of breast cancer, and now lives alone with his dog and his cat in a north-eastern suburb of Melbourne and collaborates with Globusz in editing and publishing its Romanian pages.
Sujata Bhatia
Quality Standards Coordinator
Sujata Bhatia, was born and raised in Mumbai, India. Her Mass Communication qualifications allowed her to pursue a career in Television Production. After ten years in Human Resources, Sujata went on to become the head of the Educational Division and is responsible for developing and deploying special courses for youth in rural locations. These courses are aimed at providing students with basic and vocational skills. Sujata’s passion for reading, eventually lead her to eBooks, and her love for the written word drew her to Globusz. Sujata is a member of the Quality Standards Team and is currently rewriting many of the eBook synopses and author bios. In her spare time she loves doing crosswords, Sudoku, Addoku, Kakuro and any mind games she can lay her hands on. Sujata currently lives with her husband and two sons in Gurgaon, a metropolis area adjoining New Delhi.
Christine Turner
Book Club Coordinator
Christine Turner is a communications teacher and essayist. She has worked for a leading, private, college for fifteen years. She’s also the editor of a number of corporate magazines. Christine lives in a beautiful, leafy suburb, on the shores of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales. Her love affair with books began in the cradle; passed on to her by her writer parents. Christine enjoys sailing, horse riding and building things. She is a keen photographer and spends many hours searching for that one great image. The Globusz book club is, for her, a dream realized. She believes the young author’s club house is a wonderful way to encourage and assist young writers. She’s looking forward to sending out the encouragement awards to the young people, and thinks Globusz should bestow its own Oscars. CHRISTINE’S FAVOURITE QUOTE: A person is a success if they get up in the morning and get to bed at night; and in between do what they want to do. Bob Dylan
Kim Enraca
Artistic Director ~ Website and Graphics
Kim Enraca was born and raised in the Philippines. She has qualifications in Business Administration and Graphic Design. For the past decade Kim has worked professionally as a freelance designer; working mainly in the corporate sector. She has been involved in a wide range of exciting projects, including the production of marketing and magazine advertising. Her impressive portfolio includes exciting book covers as well as a variety of other corporate design material. She has a flair for animation and believes work should be fun as well as challenging. Kim’s demanding work schedule doesn’t leave her much leisure time, but when she can, reading, writing short stores, walking and researching new design trends are her favourite activities. She was a part-time English editor for ten years, and now works tirelessly to help Globusz with its quality improvement program. Kim designed the concept to give Globusz OZ website a makeover and we are delighted with the results.
Stefan A. Motz
CEO and PRESIDENT
Globusz International
Stefan’s love for books, and his vast experience as a web designer, journalist and linguist, along with his highly developed knowledge of business and the legal profession, prepared him well for the tasks and challenges of Globusz Publishing, which he established in May 2001. Since formulating his vision for Globusz and building the business from the ground up, Stefan has engaged a team of professionals with the skills needed to, not only perform the many operational functions, but to share his vision and commitment. People with the same level of determination and drive as himself; the qualities needed to make Globusz a world leader in online publishing.
Stefan’s earlier professional endeavours include an acclaimed period as a Science and English teacher in Debrecen, Hungary. He also distinguished himself, as a researcher, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, where he did some impressive work on Romany syntax. His Romany dictionary won him peer respect, as did his work on psycholinguistic and socio-linguistics.
By combining all his professional knowledge and experience, Stefan has laid strong foundations for his Globusz business, and although rather modest by nature, he does admit he has big things planned for Globusz. Stefan has no doubt that he and and his team will build an online publishing business that will surpass any model that exists today. With deep sincerity, and a gleam in his eye, he adds, ‘and we’re almost there.’
NOTE: Stefan also spent several years designing advanced computing systems. He holds a degree from University of Debrecen. He has worked for the Department of Linguistics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences researching the Gypsy language and culture. Besides his mother tongue he speaks Hungarian, German, Romanian, Beash and Spanish. Today he lives in Newark, New Jersey.
Suzanne Fleming
Team Leader - Globusz Oz Group
Business Development Manager
Globusz Publishing International
Suzanne joined Globusz International in 2006. Her extensive change management experience includes eighteen years as a practitioner. She has worked with large and medium sized businesses, designing and implementing a range of complex systems, to help them to reposition and adjust to the demands of rapid change. Suzanne has developed commercial training programs and efficiency auditing systems for a variety of industry types, including a change management program for Australia’s largest steel and mineral producer, BHP Billiton. She has undertaken work assignments in Vietnam and London.
Suzanne has also been a part-time college and university teacher for two decades. Her specialist areas are contemporary management, human resources management, and information technology. She is an accomplished novelist and was a literary critic for a major newspaper for many years. She lives on the New South Wales, Central Coast, which is about one hour from Sydney’s CBD. Suzanne has five adult children and five grandchildren. Her favourite pastimes are tertiary education teaching, exploring and using technology in education, writing, reading, gardening, preparing small dinner parties and spending quality time with her family and friends.
Our team is dedicated to world’s best practice service. We have two primary goals: the first is to be the best e-book publishing house on the internet. The second is, to deliver great service to authors and readers. We can confidently state that we have almost reached both of these goals. We’re on the right pathway, and success is clearly in sight. But we also know that as soon as we reach our goals it will be time to make more changes, and start the hard work all over again. That’s the interesting thing about quality and service. There is no point at which business operators can say,;‘Well that’s it; we’re there. There’s nothing else to do.’ Why? Because quality and service are a continuous improvement thing. And that’s why Globusz is committed to examining every aspect of its service; to finding better ways of doing things. For our business, for our people and more importantly for our customers: authors and readers alike.
Anything less than best is just not good enough.
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Introducing our newest team member
Mikel Enraca (Mik)
Website Quality Control Intern
We are delighted to have Mik join the team. His role as the Website Quality Control Intern will ensure our Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) stays on track. He's already been busy checking all the links on the new website ~ a huge job! We're really impressed with his dedication and his eye for detail. We hope that over time Mik will take on additional duties and continue to help us deliver a great online service. Mik is currently working hard at school, but already has set the goal of becoming a corporate web designer.