About us | Clays Luxury Media

Customer and Client Media Experts

Our team at Clays Luxury Media is rich in experience when it comes to understanding how a brand needs to bond with its audience: how great storytelling resonates with an audience's expectations, and how to deliver on your brand's objectives. Whether it’s luxury fashion, high jewellery, watches, aviation, real estate, art or automotive, our leadership and team have a proven track record of creating dynamic, on-brand magazines, coffee-table books, digital media, events and campaigns that successfully deliver the expectation of our clients and their audiences.

Authorities in Consumer Media

The core team all began, or overlapped, their careers with glossy, high-end consumer magazine titles: brands that audiences pay money for, subscribe to, are loyal to and go out of their way to find on the newsstand. Titles of this nature demand the highest standard of topic, theme, writing, photography, design, concept and execution. Clays Luxury Media thrives on the premise that this level of expertise applies to every project we involve ourselves with. We are competitive creatives with global experience of working with the very best and where the adage is that only excellence is satisfactory.

Our Team

Simon Clays

Managing Director

A seasoned writer, editor-in-chief, launch editor, digital evangelist and publishing director, Simon is British by origin, with 35+ years in consumer and customer publishing. He has launched luxury, lifestyle and travel consumer titles in print and digital media across Asia, India, Europe and America – including the launch of MAXIM in 40+ countries. His client roster spans luxury hospitality, automotive, high jewellery, watches, fashion, aviation and real estate, delivering best in class media.

Abhilash Puljal

Executive Director: Capital & Strategy

Abhilash works at the intersection of trade, investment and strategy. For over two decades he has advised governments, multilateral institutions and private enterprises on cross-border strategy, market entry and deal structuring across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. At Clays Luxury Media he takes the lead on capital and strategy, giving the publishing house the commercial architecture and corridor reach to scale from a single market into a regional luxury platform.

Sush Clays

Executive Director: Brand Alchemy & Sales

From television news anchoring, sales and public relations, Sush moved to founding Welcome Home, a luxury real-estate firm serving clients including the BBC, World Bank, NY Times, Cartier, Lufthansa and embassies. She has spent 20 years exceeding the expectations of UHNI clients. A published lifestyle writer, she has curated luxury events and guest lists spanning royals, industrialists, diplomats and ambassadors.

Gitanjali Puljal

Executive Director: Marketing & PR

Gitanjali blends her artistic sensibility with hands-on leadership experience as the Managing Trustee of an animal welfare non-governmental organisation. She has built donor networks from inception, curated fundraising events and led communications campaigns that deliver results and inspire both support and trust. She brings a world of vision, expert commercial awareness and fiduciary discipline to everything Clays Luxury Media creates.

Our Advisory Board

Nawab Kazim Ali Khan

Nawab Kazim Ali Khan is a former tourism minister, an aviation expert and seasoned travel authority. He is a passionate revivalist of the cuisine of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, his ancestral home.

Girish Ramdas

Girish is the CEO of Magzter, the world’s largest digital newsstand, and magazine platform. A platform that hosts 1000s of magazines from over 150 countries worldwide. Girish is the digital strategy expert of the team.

Lorainne Young

A seasoned hospitality and events professional, Lorraine has over 35 years' experience delivering high-profile events for elite clients such as The ANZA Melbourne Cup and national days for embassies in India.

Ashish Chawla

As one of India’s premier photographers, Ashish brings three decades of experience behind the lens. Commercially, he has worked on a rich array of the country’s leading travel and luxury magazines.

Jon Wall

Jon has more than 40 years' in journalism and has edited titles that include Business Traveller Asia-Pacific and Prestige Hong Kong. Jon's experience brings a wealth of knowledge in the luxury spheres.

Monica Jain

Director of Art Centrix Space, Monica studied under Prof. Roobina Karode, the Director of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. She is a patron of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation since 2018.

Alan Strutt

Alan is our lead European photographer and has produced stunning shoots that list Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Priyanka Chopra, Mick Jagger, Johnny Depp and Madonna as highlights of a vast portfolio.

Richard Grace

Richard is a seasoned graphic designer having launched a plethora of consumer titles in the luxury, automotive and specialist segments during a thirty-year career working for the UK’s premium media houses.