The People
People behind Brown Brothers Media.
The founders, and the people with ongoing editorial, publishing, development, and operations responsibilities across the network. Individual publication mastheads identify the editors responsible for each title.
Founders
Brendan Brown
Co-Founder
Brendan came to publishing through editing. He founded The Expert Editor, a Melbourne professional editing practice, in 2012, and co-founded its international sister Global English Editing in 2014 — working line by line through thousands of manuscripts before turning to publications. He is the house's standard-bearer for editorial craft.
Lachlan Brown
Co-Founder
Lachlan founded Hack Spirit in 2016 and grew it into one of the world's most-read self-development sites — the founding playbook for the house. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Science Blog and writes on psychology, mindfulness, and behavior across the network.
Justin Brown
Co-Founder
Justin co-founded the digital media platform Ideapod and has spent over a decade at the intersection of ideas and audience. Based in Singapore, he leads strategy and the publishing systems behind the network, and writes feature columns for Science Blog.
Editorial Leadership
Mal James
Team Lead
Mal leads the house's editorial operations day to day, coordinating content production, workflow and quality standards across the network. He writes and reviews articles for the Space Daily family of titles, Silicon Canals and VegOut, and approves everything published under his name.
Rudá Iandê
Creative Director
A Brazilian author and mentor in holistic human development, Rudá draws on decades of shamanic practice to guide people into deeper contact with themselves. He created the teachings and vision behind The Vessel and shapes the creative direction of the house's work on psychology, identity, and self-exploration.
Chris Jeremia
Senior Editor
Based in Singapore, Chris joined the house in 2025 and works across editorial products and audience growth — the reader-facing systems that connect the network's publications with their audiences.
Kiran Athar
Content Manager
Kiran has managed the house's content operation since 2022 — coordinating writers, quality control, and the editorial workflows behind every masthead — from her base in Spain. She writes as Kiran Journals across Brown Brothers Media publications.
Development
Eugene Barashkov
Senior Developer
Based in Ukraine, Eugene has worked with the team since early 2021. He builds and maintains the house's websites and digital systems, from new features to the practical fixes that keep them running.
Aleksandr Reshetnikov
Developer
Based in Ukraine, Aleksandr joined in 2023. He builds and supports the network's websites: customising them, fixing what breaks, and shipping new features.
Operations
Isabel Faye Cabrera
Human Resources Manager
Isabel has run people operations since 2022, having started with the house's editing businesses before Brown Brothers Media existed in its current form. She keeps a team spread across three continents hired, paid, and looked after.
Jenny Ann Olalo
Operations Assistant
Jenny has kept the network's publishing operation moving since 2022 — scheduling, publishing, and tracking hundreds of articles a month across the portfolio.
Maria Fe Inot
Operations Coordinator
From the Philippines, Maria has coordinated operations across the network since 2022, keeping the schedules, systems, and workflows behind the portfolio moving.
Ainura Yermagambetova
Operations Coordinator
Ainura joined in 2023 after several years at the education company Mindvalley. Based in Brazil, she coordinates operations across The Vessel and the wider network, from product launches to analytics.
Rachel Corinne Santos
Operations Support and Writer
From Manila, Rachel joined the house in 2024, after earlier work with its editing business. She keeps the publishing operation moving — scheduling, publishing, and tracking articles across the portfolio — and writes on motherhood, family life, and the balance of career and parenthood.
Writers
Daniel Mabanta
Writer
Writing from Manila, Daniel joined the house in 2023 and covers relationships, psychology and spirituality across the network's titles, with a particular gift for the craft of the headline.
Nato Lagidze
Writer and Researcher
Writing from Tbilisi, Georgia, Nato has been with the house since 2022. A PhD researcher with an academic background in psychology, she writes and reviews articles across the network on psychology, personal development and science.