Simon Kelton is an award-winning adventure travel journalist, screenwriter, film & TV producer and serial entrepreneur.
Simon is currently producing Guy Ritchie’s new $100m TV series “Young Sherlock” for Amazon Prime. He also wrote and co-produced the hit British comedy “Eddie the Eagle” starring Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton.
Simon is the Founder of Inspirational Adventures, a platform that’s disrupting the travel market by making it quicker, easier and more fun for people to discover their next great, life-changing adventure, while helping the best independent adventure tour operators around the world find new clients for ZERO commission.
An award-winning adventure travel journalist for 30 years, Simon has written for the Telegraph, TIME, Daily Mail, Fall Line and many others. His first business after university was a ski chalet company in Chamonix. The experience inspired him to compete in the British Snowboarding Championships in Les Arcs and World Extremes in Valdez, Alaska, where he did 450 heli drops over 20 years and got to name four premier descents.
On his travels, Simon has swum with pink dolphins and piranhas in the Amazon, played five-a-side football with Sherpas at 15,500ft on a glacier in Afghanistan, and read the Dalai Lama’s palm in India just to name a few.
The author, editor and publisher of the bestselling “Rich Bastard’s Guide to Los Angeles”, Simon has appeared on numerous TV shows. Whoopi Goldberg bought 18 copies of the book for her staff at Christmas and Donald Trump wrote to say: “As a classic member of the Rich Bastard demographic group, I can honestly say this is the funniest and most informative book on the subject.”
Simon also wrote and edited “The Crush Guide to New York”, a nightlife guide to the city covering 1000 clubs, bars and restaurants, which become one of the first online dating sites for Elisabeth Murdoch and Matthew Freud’s Oxygen Media.
A graduate of Oxford, Stanford and UCLA, Simon has also studied at Harvard Business School, Cambridge Judge, INSEAD, Imperial College and Stanford GSB.