The Matrix Green Pill

Dr. Shambavi Rajagopal has lived in the UAE for more than 30 years. Since she founded Save Scrap & Sew in 2015 September with her buddies, SSS has saved more than 8 and a half tons of scrap & gifted the sheets, bags, and pillows made from the scrap. They have saved the landfill and made more than 3000 sheets, 5000 bags, and 5000 pillows and gifted them to the deserving. She is an Academici...

Brendon is an award-winning, international creative, choreographer and director for stage and screen from the United Kingdom, now based in the UAE. He moved to the United Arab Emirates nearly two years ago to create an international base for him to work internationally. The UAE is a melting pot of ethnic diversity and since being here he feels he has had a crash course in exploring different cultu...

Saira Sayed is a Proud Person with Disability and is empowered with a wheelchair. She carries this identity of honor with pride after her diagnosis of Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy. Motivated to create an impact, she champions Disability Inclusion and works with Employers to connect People with Disabilities to opportunities. When Saira is not researching the newest accessibility-related applicati...

Jack Pearce is the founder of Matrix Public Relations, a company he established in 1999.  He has over 30 years PR and journalism experience in the Middle East. He was a co-founder and former chairman of the Middle East PR Association (MEPRA) and regularly spoke at forums and is quoted in the media on public affairs issues. Prior to setting up Matrix PR he was Senior Director of Client Servicing fo...

Danay has over 15 years of financial leadership experience across emerging markets taking on varied and increasingly senior roles. He is an Advisor to the CEO at Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, CFO at Commercial Bank International and ANZ Bank. He is keen to professionalize the world of Outdoor Sports from snow to mountain biking. He served as Strategic Advisor to Burton Snowboards and brings knowl...

Sophie is the Founder and CEO of Nabta Health, a hybrid healthcare platform for women providing personalised healthcare to women in emerging markets. Prior to founding Nabta, Sophie worked for Accenture as a technology consultant and then founded several impact enterprises including myZindagi (a doctor-finding platform based in Pakistan) and Le Plastics (a plastic recycling company based in Sierra...

Established in July 2021, Elie is co-founder and CEO of Right Farm, an e-commerce business-to-business fresh produce supply chain company that is optimizing the value chain to create efficiencies for businesses. They empower farms, restaurants and other stakeholders across the value chain to deliver what is needed in a smart and sustainable way.  Prior to opening Right Farm, Elie worked on buildin...

Wemmy de Maaker is from the Netherlands, and moved to Dubai in 2002, with her husband due to job relocations with 2 children, aged 5 and 6 at the time. Wemmy has spent her entire professional career working with people of determination. She first noticed when she arrived in Dubai that there weren’t people of determination in malls or on the streets, so she became a volunteer at one of the schools...

Atif Rahman is an acknowledged expert and thought leader in the Real Estate & Construction industry. He is known for his sustainable development and innovative financial engineering within the industry. His robust experience and expertise in land procurement, world class project design, successful sale & marketing campaigns, and most importantly, timely delivery with quality construction p...

Joseph started his career as a scientist, developing new cancer therapies during his PhD at the University of Toronto. He co-founded a medical device startup during his studies which brought him into the world of business and his first interactions with VCs. He first learned about active investing during his time at DM Capital in Shenzhen, helping launch their first fund, Harmony. He then joined O...

Sharan Budhrani is an expressive artist at Mawaheb, a Dubai-based art studio based for people of determination. He was diagnosed with a medical condition called muscular dystrophy at the age of six, a degenerative neuromuscular disease which is said to be genetic, and has no determined cure to date. Sharan was awarded the Golden Visa in 2021 for his cultural contribution to the country.  About thi...

Born in Sharjah, UAE, Madhav Dhar has had over fifteen years of experience in a multitude of industries. Moving to the prestigious Doon boarding School in India in 1991, Dhar looks upon this experience as one that helped develop him to who he is today. Upon graduating in 1998, Dhar continued his A-level studies in the United Kingdom and from there, he relocated to Canada, at the age of 19, to stud...

The first 40 years of Mike Arnold's career were spent as a professional and diligent architect. Thanks to what now seems like serendipitous timing, Arnold progressed through a successful career without ever having to become architecturally computer literate and rely on programmes to create building sketches and renderings. As such, his drawing skills were fine-tuned throughout his life, prepa...

Avinash was born and raised in Dubai, and he decided to follow his father’s footsteps into the insurance industry. He is the founder of InsuranceMarket.ae, he started the company in his 20s which now has over 600 staff members and over 150,000 policy holders. About this episode In this episode Avinash talks about his passion for entrepreneurship and business, as well as how he formed insurancemark...

Kira Jean is the founder and CEO of The Dreamwork Collective, an independent print and digital publishing company that shares the Middle East's most unique voices and powerful stories. Her company is striving toward becoming one of the most influential, life-changing media organizations in the Middle East, offering a platform for inspiring stories and wisdom from the region to be shared throu...

Prantik is an entrepreneur & venture investor and acts as a Digital Transformation Catalyst in organizations to drive sustainable change and impact.  He is a regular columnist for Marketing Magazine, Campaign Asia, Economic Times, and Business Times on all things digital transformation and marketing and has trained over 500 enterprises in the region on this subject.  Apart from his corporate r...

Brett is the Principal of The Arbor School, an ecological school with a focus on sustainability. He is a dad of 3 and his wife also works as a principal. In March he the Ironman 70.3 in Dubai. About this episode In this episode, Brett shares his experiences being a principal of the Arbor School and how he balances his work with his personal life. He also shares more details about the school’s GCSE...

Aimee is an HR and Business Support professional, wife, mother to three children under 5yrs, and keeper of two fur babies. Life for her has been busy!   She received her Bachelor’s Degree in HR Management in the UK and has worked for over 12 yrs. here in Dubai and in the UK in different HR, Operations, and business support roles across Banking, healthcare, and Services sectors. The Sandpit Greetin...

Zahra Khumri is an individual with Achondroplasia, the most common form of Dwarfism. She is a Computer Engineer and currently she assists as the Administrative Executive to Abdulla Lutfi and Asma Baker. She, alongside Gulshan, have recently started an event company called “Ray of Hope” that empowers People of Determination artists and connects the corporate world to the world of special needs. Abo...

Mohamed Elmak “Madriz" is the PMO and R&D Director at FortyGuard; a startup on a mission to cool cities. We believe what gets measured gets improved, and the best solutions come from understanding data. FortyGuard provides data gathering in light sensing methods to put a dollar figure to the problem of outdoor temperatures for corporations. We engage with the community to enrich our platf...

Asma is a 33-year-old artist and a motivational speaker. She also writes short stories, poems and is currently working on her novel. One of her short stories has been published in the book ‘Traveller’s Tales’ which received much acclaim. Asma has not only been a representative on the organizing and steering committee for the Abu Dhabi Special Olympics World Summer Games that was held in March 2019...

Started as an eight-year-old with his guitar and a newfound love for music in hand. Fast forward to twenty years; he’s the man whose voice & jingles you can recognize from miles away – Ahmad Haffar, the voice of Dubai. But that’s not all. Apart from being an award-winning musician, he’s also the managing partner and co-owner at Mindloop Studios & Establishing the first of its kind ‘’OnThef...

Chandra Dake is the Executive Chairman and Group CEO of the Dake Group, and an advocate of Innovation and Sustainability, with a Food Security and Water Conservation focus. Mr. Dake reconciles a strong entrepreneurial drive with a philanthropic spirit, which has helped him conceptualize and implement socially conscious and sustainable business models, over a 21-year career as a successful entrepre...

Abdulla Lutfi, who goes by the artistic signature “A.L.”, is a dynamic, unique and well established Emirati artist based in Dubai. He has been creating art since childhood and used  drawing as a means of communicating before he could even speak. A.L. is currently working in  his art studio, “NEXT Chapter” at Tashkeel, Al Fahidi alongside his artistic mentor, Gulshan  Kavarana, who has been working...

Wendy is the first certified mBraining trainer in the UAE, Founder of mBrain.me and the Master Trainer for BNI UAE.  About this episode In this episode, Wendy talks about her motivation to think and come up with a coaching session called, PositiviTEA through Zoom meeting and it created a positive impact on people's life.   Quotes "We’re all different. You know, what’s right for me, might...