Co-Founder/CEO

Joel believes the key to a fulfilling life involves collectively leveraging skills, experiences, and opportunities to create communities of human flourishing. Through broad international exposure, he has learned the value of engaging with a diverse range of individuals and cultures to gain perspective and deepen human connection. His background in finance and startups brought him to Riyadh in 2017.

Co-Founder/COO

Matthew has Master’s degrees in both Cross-Cultural Studies and in TESOL (Applied Linguistics for English as a Second Language).  Even though he was born and raised in the United States, he has Arabic ancestry, and because of this has always had an interest in Arabic language.  He initially took a teaching job in the Kingdom expecting to find a place to fulfill this desire, but instead found a huge gap in the market for learning Arabic language and culture.