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G: The Green Lifestyle Magazine is produced by Luna Media, a boutique publisher established in 2004 and based in Sydney. It publishes the popular science magazine, COSMOS, and its sister website Cosmos Online, a daily news and features service, and Cosmos Update, a weekly newsletter. The company has already won 26 journalism and industry awards, including Consumer Magazine of the Year for G at the annual Bell Magazine Awards.

Luna Media was founded by four individuals: Australian neuroscientist and the Chancellor of Monash University, Dr Alan Finkel, magazine publishing executive Kylie Ahern and science journalists Wilson da Silva and Elizabeth Finkel. COSMOS was launched in June 2005, and Cosmos Online, launched in June 2006; G Magazine was launched in November 2006.

Luna Media was named Best Small Publisher at Australia's annual Bell Magazine Awards in 2006, and was runner-up in the same category in 2007.

Chairman & Executive Publisher

Dr Alan Finkel is a neuroscientist and philanthropist, and one of the founders of G Magazine. The chairman of Luna Media, he also chairs the magazine's Editorial Advisory Board. The Chancellor of Melbourne's Monash University, he is the winner of the 2005 Clunies Ross Medal and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2006 - in both cases for his contribution to science and education. With a PhD in electrical engineering from Monash, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he invented a new voltage clamp that made it possible to measure the electrical activity of previously inaccessible, individual neurons in mammals. He went on to establish Axon Instruments Inc, a scientific equipment manufacturer with a global reputation, and lead it for 22 years until its acquisition in 2004. With his wife Elizabeth he runs the Finkel Foundation, a philanhropic trust focused on environmental causes and science education.

Chief Executive Officer & Publisher

Kylie Ahern is the CEO of the Sydney publishing company Luna Media and a co-founder of G: The Green Lifestyle Magazine, a practical and positive guide to sustainable living that is Australia's first carbon neural magazine. Having started her career at IPC Magazines in Britain, she went on to several senior publishing roles in Australia, including Marketing Director at FPC Magazines, Group Circulation Manager at ACP Magazines and Publisher at Yaffa Publishing. She has lead Luna Media to a win of 26 awards across editorial, publishing and marketing. Her own awards include Consumer Magazine of the Year and Best Consumer Magazine Launch in 2007 (both for G Magazine), as well as Best Small Publisher for Luna Media.

Editorial Director

Wilson da Silva is a celebrated science journalist with experience across print, television and online. A former reporter for ABC TV's Quantum science program, he has served as editor of the magazines Newton and 21C, was science editor of ABC Online, has been a foreign correspondent for Reuters, and is a former journalist on The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. The winner of 23 awards - including the Editor of the Year (twice), and the 2000 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Documentary for the East Timor film, The Diplomat - he is the immediate past president of the World Federation of Science Journalists and is a former president of the Australian Science Communicators. more

Director

Rayma Creswell has a thorough knowledge of the publishing sector. Formerly the Group Circulation & Marketing Director of the Federal Publishing Company, she oversaw the branding and development of such titles as Australian Vogue and Delicious. As General Manager of the magazine distribution house NDD, Rayma managed the distribution and marketing of 2,500 titles for 250 publishing clients. She has also launched her own publishing company, specialising in computer magazines which was acquired by a larger publishing group after eight years of successful operation. Rayma is the former chief executive of the Australian Newsagents' Federation.