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2023 Apogee Awards Honoree: Ken Muskat

Meet Ken Muskat, Managing Director of Scenic Group USA

Ken Muskat is a highly-regarded and experienced cruise line executive serving as Managing Director of Scenic Group USA. Muskat comes to Scenic Group USA with more than 25 years of cruise industry management ​experience. As the USA Managing Director for Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours and Emerald Cruises, Muskat is responsible for the oversight and development of the U.S. Market with a key focus on the areas of sales, marketing, finance, revenue management, and contact center, working alongside colleagues from around the globe. Ken has also been involved at the industry level, serving two years as the Chairman of CLIA’s Trade Relations Committee. He was twice named Travel Agent’s Top 100 Rising Stars of the Travel Industry. When not working, Muskat contributes time to charitable causes, promoting the importance of physical and mental activities for himself and his friends, traveling the world for the sake of new experiences and learning, and mentoring his team and up-and-coming hospitality industry professionals.

Drew Limsky

Drew Limsky

Editor-in-Chief

BIOGRAPHY

Drew Limsky joined Lifestyle Media Group in August 2020 as Editor-in-Chief of South Florida Business & Wealth. His first issue of SFBW, October 2020, heralded a reimagined structure, with new content categories and a slew of fresh visual themes. “As sort of a cross between Forbes and Robb Report, with a dash of GQ and Vogue,” Limsky says, “SFBW reflects South Florida’s increasingly sophisticated and dynamic business and cultural landscape.”

Limsky, an avid traveler, swimmer and film buff who holds a law degree and Ph.D. from New York University, likes to say, “I’m a doctor, but I can’t operate—except on your brand.” He wrote his dissertation on the nonfiction work of Joan Didion. Prior to that, Limsky received his B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Emory University and earned his M.A. in literature at American University in connection with a Masters Scholar Award fellowship.

Limsky came to SFBW at the apex of a storied career in journalism and publishing that includes six previous lead editorial roles, including for some of the world’s best-known brands. He served as global editor-in-chief of Lexus magazine, founding editor-in-chief of custom lifestyle magazines for Cadillac and Holland America Line, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Modern Luxury Interiors South Florida. He also was the executive editor for B2B magazines for Acura and Honda Financial Services, and he served as travel editor for Conde Nast. Magazines under Limsky’s editorship have garnered more than 75 industry awards.

He has also written for many of the country’s top newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, USA Today, Worth, Robb Report, Afar, Time Out New York, National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Journal, Ritz-Carlton, Elite Traveler, Florida Design, Metropolis and Architectural Digest Mexico. His other clients have included Four Seasons, Acqualina Resort & Residences, Yahoo!, American Airlines, Wynn, Douglas Elliman and Corcoran. As an adjunct assistant professor, Limsky has taught journalism, film and creative writing at the City University of New York, Pace University, American University and other colleges.