Meet the Escape Artist team
Our group of contributors include people from across the globe who are driven to share their experiences of living overseas. They are the lifeblood that makes Escape Artist possible, bringing you the stories, advice, and beautiful images that our readers love!
Escape Artist Editor-in-Chief Isha Sesay holds a Master’s degree in Journalism and has collaborated with renowned publications such as National Geographic, Architectural Digest, and several national newspapers. Born in London, she has spent the past decade living and working across the globe, and now calls Barcelona, Spain, home.
Escape Artist’s Editorial Assistant Carla Rodrigues is a writer, editor, and creative strategist with a passion for helping ideas travel as far as people do. After building a career that spans storytelling, marketing, and international development, she joined Escape Artist to craft narratives that inform and inspire anyone ready to live beyond borders. Based in Portugal, Carla brings both creativity, precision and lived experience to her work, turning complex topics about relocation, investment, and global living into stories that feel personal, practical, and full of possibility.
At the height of a successful career in the computer industry, Michael K. Cobb left to form Exotic Caye International to provide loans to North Americans purchasing properties throughout Central America. The company was later converted to an international bank under the jurisdiction of Belize. Michael and partners created ECI Development, a multi-country developer with projects in four countries of Latin America, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Read more.
Joel Nagel is an international lawyer and entrepreneur focusing his practice on asset protection, cross-border transactions, second citizenship programs, and global investment. He speaks all over the world on the topics of asset protection, global banking and investment, citizenship and residency and international legal compliance. Joel has written articles for—and been quoted by—Forbes, Fortune, The Miami Herald, Live and Invest Overseas, Hemispheres Publishing, Stansberry Research, Oxford Club, True Wealth, Islands Magazine, Business Times, and many more.. Read more.
Daniel Wilhelm is a Business Development Consultant who has been working abroad since 2014. His journey started on the shores of Nicaragua and eventually took him to the coast of Portugal. Dan and his wife enjoy traveling to lesser-known parts of the world, when they are not catering to their chow chow, Olivia.
As the President and COO of ASI, Rich Checkan has knowledge of every facet of ASI’s operations. He has been an integral part of ASI’s maturation from a precious metals and foreign exchange dealer to a full-service tangible and rare tangible asset provider—to include rare U.S., world, and ancient coins. Rich oversees the operations, administrative, sales, and marketing departments, as well as serving as ASI’s Compliance Officer. Read more.
Luigi Wewege is President of award-winning Caye International Bank, headquartered in Belize, Central America. Outside of the bank he serves as an Instructor at the FinTech School in California which provides online training courses on the latest technological and innovation developments within the financial services industry. Luigi is also the published author of: The Digital Banking Revolution which is available in audio, kindle and paperback formats throughout all major international online bookstores and is now in its third edition. Read more.