Who Run the World

Hind Sergieh is the founder of ARkub, a VR and AR company based out of Dubai. Of Syrian descent, but born and raised in Canada, Hind's career trajectory is kind of the opposite of what you hear everyday. She started off her career by doing different various jobs in Canada. At the same time, she was invited to become a member of a number of board of directors. She later decided to leave Canada...

Marilyn sits down with Womena founder Elissa Freiha, who shares her entrepreneurial journey and all the challenges and victories she has faced along the way. Elissa launched Womena in 2014 from Dubai. It started as an angel investment network and today has turned into part accelerator and part media company with its new web-series called Womentum . During the episode, Marilyn and Elsa talk about w...

Elsa Aoun is the co-founder and CEO of Ounousa . Marilyn got to sit down with Elsa in their country's capital: Beirut. Elsa shared with us a bunch of details of her personal journey from her days as one of the only girls in her Engineering class, to working in consulting and to starting her own company. Elsa's takes us through the early days of Ounousa, how she raised funds, and how she...

In this special episode, we flip the microphone on Marilyn, who goes from being a host to becoming a guest. She shares her story from childhood to becoming a manager, up until her last day at her first job. Through our conversation, we discuss what it means to be a leader, and how its reward system is drastically different from that of an individual performer. Also Marilyn talks about what it was...

Peggy Li is the co-owner of SPS Affinity, a boutique and strategy agency that specializes in hospitality - or as Peggy likes to call herself Chief Troubleshooter and Tinkerbell. Peggy has worked in the most prominent restaurants and alongside Michelin star chefs, namely Chef Joel Robouchon. She shares with Marilyn stories from across her career, including how she fell in love with the service indu...

Managing Director and founder of Moxie Future , Jessica Robinson takes us on a trip that spans from London, to New York, Beijing, Honk Kong, all the way to Dubai, sharing all the challenges and victories she's faced all along the way.  Jessica has worked in consulting, where she had to assimilate into the industry's boy's club to climb up the ladder. She then moved to Beijing where...

Leila Serhan is the Public Sector Director for the Gulf Region at Microsoft, where she has been working for the last seventeen years. In her conversation with Marilyn, Leila shares stories from her career, including her first job at a Lebanese telecom company, her early days at Microsoft, the stereotypes she's been held to because of her gender, and how she is giving back through mentorship....