Our commitment to reimagining the Education
Former CEO and Founder of Sukoon International Company of Healthcare
( Long Term Care Acute).
Board Member of International Medical Center (Tertiary Care Hospital).
Founder and Board Member of SecuTronic specialized in Low-current projects
for governments, banks, and industry.
Partner at Hayat Abdul Latif Jameel and company limited.
Ihab has over 30 years of experience guiding business's strategic direction. He founded and co-founded many startups and held notable positions in various companies around the world.
“Metavisionaries are full of positivity, hope, optimism, and resilience. You are the catalyst of a better change in the world " -
Ihab Elsamannoudi
Co-Founder
Dr Mohamed has over 30 years of experience in education sector. He has held notable academic and research positions in various universities across USA and the Middle East.
He has established, founded and co-founded many startups and held management positions in several technology-focused companies, working in the innovation sector. His areas of expertise include Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Development. He is actively involved in the EdTech sector and has a keen interest in reforming education through frontier technologies. At Metavisionaries, he is actively involved in developing the MetaEduversity in the Metaverse and giving the project overall direction.
Co-Founder
Engineer with experience in complex construction projects in healthcare and other sectors. Familiar with healthcare operations and held many positions through his 20 years of career.
Graduated from Northeastern University in Boston as a Mechanical Engineer and studied many courses in Business and Quality Management. Moreover, Hani managed construction projects at Hayat Abdul Latif Jameel Company and was an advisory to its board. Some of these projects were related to 53 story high rise buildings, 340 apartments residential compound and other healthcare related projects. One of the Founders and Executives of SecuTronic Company which handled mega security and low current projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia such as Aramco, Banks, and Governmental projects. In addition, Hani was a board member at AlMashfa Hospital and led the construction management phase of the hospital and its first two years of operation as Chief Support Services for 7 departments. Network Development Consultant for Alesayi Motors in developing their new branches and renovating different locations in Saudi.
Board Member
Dr. Tara is a space scientist and explorer with years of expertise in scientific research. She is also a TED Speaker with interest in empowering people to adapt to novel situations.
She is very much looking forward to bringing you the fantastic science content right from her brain, and the knowledge she has gained during the last twenty years of her career at NASA. And not just her knowledge but the knowledge of other scientists who are passionate about different experiments just like her. Dr Tara is creating the unique content to be shared with you in an immersive environment that allows you to try new things and learn about space or the human body or our oceans the way you have never seen it before.
Executive Director of Sciences
Hilde’s career started in research with a PhD in plasma-astrophysics. Upon completion she started working with Space Applications Services. Currently working for ~ 20 years in the space sector.
Hilde contributed to the ESA ISS Mission Science Office for a decade. In that function she was part of the science coordination for all disciplines' experiments run on the space station for all participating space agencies. Now Hilde is using her expertise to provide fast and direct access to space for research and technology users through the ICE Cubes (International Commercial Experiments Service) program.
Board Member
Jovita is a former Executive Director of UNICEF Lithuania with 17 years leadership experience working with the UN projects.
She is passionate about implementing big thinking, impact, compassion, growth at scale, delivering results and purpose driven leadership solutions that she learned at UNICEF to help leaders and forward - thinking governments and companies, innovative non-profits and world changing start-ups globally to master the power of purpose to deliver business growth, create brand value, build communities, movements and social impact.
Leadership Strategist & Advisor
Ayesha is an Internationally acclaimed Visual Tech-Artist and Wearable Art Designer / Researcher, focusing on Fusion-art practices.
Her work often explores the synergy between humans and machines, the intersection of
technology and identity. By combining sci-fi themes, and the hidden mysteries of fractal
worlds, she creates interactive and hybrid experiences through her multi-layered visuals
and VR concepts.
She is also the Founder of the Oshii Brownie Phygital Fashion Studio.She has displayed
her work at WOW festival, Islington Mill, Mowna Biennale, Be-Fantastic Tech-Art, Forbes
Middle East, SAAMA, Express-News, Independent Urdu, E27, DailyTimes etc. Her research is
published in the areas of Digital Fashion,Light Pollution and sustainable art practices
in international journals.
Lead Artist and Creative Director
Harry has a combined 15 years experience in the Pharmacy Landscape from Management, Operations and Services. He has created enterprises from scratch that support people in the community.
Harry works with schools, businesses and private companies to build, share and learn with synergy. He has been awarded numerous awards, more recently the British Empire Medal issued by Her Majesty the Queen for supporting the community during Covid-19. Also he beat 70,000 people to be chosen to appear on The Apprentice business show with Lord Sugar this year. As a huge believer in positivity with endless possibilities he joined Metavisionaries to lead the cause to disrupt environments globally and bring equality to the world.
Head of Innovation and Emerging Communities
Shahad is the operations officer at metavisionaries. She is passionate about sustainable development and creative learning.
"I believe in an education system that shines on diversity, I aspire to leave a mark in the growth of the education system" -Shahad Yamani
Operations Officer and Ambassador
A skilled brand strategist, art director and a creative soul. Adeel aims to manifest impact on both local and international brands. His forte in aesthetics of design and creative expression can do just that!
Adeel is the producer of award-winning documentary films as well as advertisement campaigns and he has contributed to several prominent national and international campaigns, both digital and conventional working with global brands such as Pepsico, Telenor, Shell, StageClip and many more!
Marketing Director
Ally Salama is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recognized social entrepreneur, ex-pro athlete, keynote speaker and podcaster, and The Middle East’s Mental Health Ambassador.
He founded empower-mag.com, the first Mental Health Magazine in the Middle East, winning Harvard's Top 7 Most Impactful Social Initiatives in 2019, earning recognition from the World Health Organization & the World Federation for Mental Health. He hosts Apple’s #1 Charting Youth Leadership Podcast “Empathy Always Wins” - the world's exclusive leadership and mental health podcast focusing on empathy. Currently living in between Dubai & Toronto, Ally is building his tech mental wellbeing start-up EMPWR and consults government institutions on improving their community engagement and on providing leadership & mental health workshops.
Ambassador
Mishaal Ashemimry is a Saudi-American Aerospace Engineer, Aerospace Entrepreneur, commercial pilot, speaker and influencer, who was born in the US and spent a few years of her early life in Saudi, where her fascination with space started.
More specifically, she was inspired at the age of six while gazing at the stars in
the Unayzah desert. To feed her curiosity, she decided to learn how to build rockets
that will enable her to explore space and one day take her there.
Currently, Ashemimry is a consultant in her field and a Professor in the Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Miami. Moreover, she is
living her passion everyday by educating and inspiring others through conferences,
webinars and her social media channels. While based in Miami, Florida, she founded
MISHAAL Aerospace at age 26, to pursue her ultimate dream of building rockets. Her
company’s objective was to design and build rockets to launch small satellites (500 kg)
or less to Low Earth Orbit. Previously, she worked for Raytheon Missile Systems’
Aerodynamics Department and contributed to twenty-two different rocket programs.
Her professional experience and areas of expertise include: aerodynamics, wind tunnel
testing, vehicle design, predictive simulation and analysis and rocket stage-separation
analysis, with a strong focus on computational tool development.
She earned a Master of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Florida Institute
of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, and two Bachelor of Science Degrees in Aerospace
Engineering and in Applied Mathematics, also from Florida Institute of Technology.
Her academic focus included: experimental and analytical aerodynamics, rocket design
and nuclear thermal propulsion.
Ambassador
Former undefeated WBO World Champion boxer I am an established boxing pundit, event host and motivational speaker. Proud patron of the Brendan Ingle Foundation and an ambassador for Prostate Cancer.
Regularly deliver talks in person and virtually using my own experiences and stories to discuss mindset, motivation, diversity & inclusion. Including companies such as UBS, AMEY, LendLease and Procter & Gamble. Prior to Sky Sports, worked for the BBC across human interest stories and documentaries. As well as boxing, passionate about health & fitness. During pandemic launched BoxPro offering a mix of free (and subscription) boxing workouts and techniques for all levels of fitness. Ensuring all ages and backgrounds can have access to at home fitness. Motto is 'Find A Way' as I genuinely believe that with the right approach, support or mindset, it is possible to overcome a number of business or personal challenges.
Ambassador
Ahmed Ali known professionally as Wegz, is an Egyptian trap artist and rapper who rose to fame in 2017 and is one of the most talented young Trap and Rap artists of the Middle East region with over 600K monthly Spotify listeners.
He has the record for Egypt’s most streamed song of 2020 in ‘Dorak Gai’ on Spotify. With Metavisionaries, WEGZ is on a mission to help others learn and inspire for the future.
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