ABOUT

At my core, my life purpose is to help others find their life purpose and find love, which is always an inside job first.
I founded The Self Summit out of my own struggles. For    20+ years, I personally struggled with finding and fulfilling my life purpose and with finding love within myself.

After a lot of self-work, which I am eternally grateful for, I found the light and I realized that I have a responsibility to utilize my God given gifts to help support others to find the Light or the Spark that they may have lost along the way.
To me, this is deeply fulfilling and hopefully deeply useful and life changing to the light seeker.

Headline title summary of previous roles:

• Founder, Self Summit

• Founding CEO of Palma (launched in two countries)

• Strategy & Public Policy at Careem (managed 14 MENATP countries), acquired by Uber 

• Boston Consulting Group Consultant (UAE, KSA)

• Co-Founder of Series A funded startup at Bonfaire (Silicon Valley), acquired by Moda Operandi

• University of Michigan, B.A., Economics and Political Science (USA)

• INSEAD, M.B.A. (France, Singapore)

• Graduate of The School of Life and The Hoffman Process

 

When not traveling, Zina is based in New York.

Tanmay is a certified Executive Coach with 10+ years of experience working with organizations such as Google, Bain & Co. and Kantar Group across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. 

 

He is deeply passionate about behavior change, career growth and relationships. He advises multiple startups on organizational transformation, capability building and growth strategy. 

 

Tanmay is pursuing his PhD in Post-Heroic Leadership at the University of Glasgow. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and studied Leadership & Behavioral Economics at Harvard Business School. Previously, he completed a Masters in Sociology and a Bachelors in Economics from University of Delhi. 

 

He was born and brought up in India and is currently based in Dubai with his wife and two sons.

Entrepreneur and Business Executive hybrid, with over 
15 years of experience building and scaling venture-backed tech startups across more than 20 countries. His experience includes:
Being part of the early growth team at Uber
Leading global expansion for Tink Labs – the largest  travel-tech startup
Leading US expansion for REEF Technology

JP is currently the CEO of Plaey, which is redefining wellbeing for the future of work. He was previously the CEO and CoFounder of Blue Space, a company that hosts unique in person personal development experiences. 

JP holds a Bachelor’s Degree from The University of San Diego, a Masters Degree from The University of Michigan and an MBA from INSEAD– ‘the business school for the world’, where he learned that diversity of culture and thought are the true drivers of innovation. 

He enjoys building and mentoring teams and see this as an essential part of developing a value-driven and high-performance culture. In his spare time, he mentors individuals and companies, helping transform their ideas from concept to reality. When not traveling, JP is based in Miami. 
 

Serene is a certified medical doctor with dual certification from the UK and the USA. She qualified from Imperial College in London in 2000.

Serene’s passion for lifestyle medicine stems from her years of experience as a doctor. She’s an avid believer in health promotion, disease prevention, personalized healthcare, and exploring the root cause of disease. Putting a plaster on a wound does not work. Her vision is to combine her experience as a medical doctor with her skills in lifestyle medicine to improve the holistic health of her patients and empower them to have the confidence and knowledge to do so. 

Headline title summary of previous roles:
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) – Imperial College school of Medicine, London, UK
Residency and Fellowship in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care  (ABIM/Pulm/Critical Care) – Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
CCST Respiratory/General Internal Medicine – UK Specialist Register
Lifestyle Medicine Dip (IBLM/BSLM) – British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
Health Coach, Dip.CNM – College of Naturopathic Medicine 

Dr. Shashaa lives in the UK with her husband and 2 kids. She has been a respiratory consultant in the National Health Service for several years, and in 2019 , she found herself at the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. After 2 challenging years, she went on a journey of self reflection, and has since certified in lifestyle medicine and health coaching, alongside her career in respiratory medicine. 

Dr. Christiane Mueck has been following her passion as a strategy consultant and expert advisor at the intersection of strategy consulting, entrepreneurship and human capital development for the last 15 years in Europe and the Middle East.

 

Her work focuses on education (HE, TVET, K-12) and the non-profit sector. She has advised Ministries, SWF and MNC during her tenure at the Boston Consulting Group, built a medical college and restructured a national university in Qatar, and currently supports Misk Foundation in growing its portfolio of 30+ education focused programs.

 

She has co-founded several start-up companies at the intersection of EdTech and FinTech and is an active angel investor and mentor to for profit and impact start-ups. She is a trained executive coach and holds a MsC from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and a PhD in Education Economics from Carl von Ossietzsky University of Oldenburg.

 

Christiane has worked and lived in 7 countries with a particular passion for education, healthcare, and public sector reform.

 

Dr. Christiane currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

Bader Ataya is the Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of Kitopi. Kitopi is the world's first and largest managed cloud kitchen platform and has raised over $400M USD to date.

 

Bader spearheaded Kitopi's international expansion launching the business in 6 international markets including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, London and New York. 

Bader currently leads M&A activities across Kitopi's markets.

 

Prior to Kitopi, Bader co-founded Mumzworld.com, the Middle East's first and largest shopping site for everything mother, baby and child related. Mumzworld was acquired by the Saudi-based Tamer group and continues to be regarded as one of the pioneers in the regional ecommerce space winning numerous awards.

 

Bader holds an MBA from Cambridge University’s Judge School of Business and a BA from Tufts University.

 

Bader resides in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with his wife and daughter.