Nile Tuzun

Feb 1

Founder & Chief Creative Storyteller of Studio Nilebrand

A little bit about Nile…

Nile Tuzun, a highly accomplished hospitality design and development executive, an award winning photographer, creative director, art advocate, and citizen of the world, has developed a solid reputation for uncompromising excellence in the world of international hospitality design. Her work over the past 22 years has influenced and raised the bar for the hospitality experience worldwide with her lifestyle and interior design company Studio Nilebrand as Founder and Chief Creative Storyteller.

Nile brings a design-focused background to her work, typified by in- depth collaboration with valuable ownership groups, distinguished guests, global divisional team members, internal cross divisional team members and operational team members providing hospitality design and management and operational consulting services. Nile maintains close working relationships with the world's leading architects and designers as she strives to realize design standards unique to each project. With a very confident philosophy regarding hotel, mixed-use residential, creative office space, spa and restaurant design and operations, Nile has and continues to support the future of design by participating as an expert panelist for seminars, design forums, charity events and guest academic lectures and critiques at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and Academy of Art University. Her strategic implementation of design and her understanding of the global marketplace, drive her to realize her goals with conviction and with the utmost professionalism.

Nile is also part of The Young Society Leaders (YSL) which is a program that convenes a select, diverse group of the American-Turkish community’s most outstanding young leaders, in their 30s and 40s. Nile recently became a board member at The Travel Industry Executive Women's Network (TIEWN), a global networking association with over 10,000 members.

Nile, born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey holds a Masters of Architecture. Nile is working towards her executive degree in Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate (AMDP) at Harvard University to be completed in 2022 and she will also attend Yale School of Management, Women’s Leadership Program to be completed in November 2021.