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Chancellor, Gaben (U.S. Team)
GuiGui, Martin (Founder, U.S. Team)
Ing, Samuel (Founder, U.S. Team)
Jabsheh, Hatem (Founder, Middle East Team)
Kenny, Gadi (Middle East Team)
Khatib, Sulaiman (Middle East Team)
Nelson, Steve (U.S. Team)
Passannante, Lydia (U.S. Team)
Traub, David (Founder, U.S. Team)
Waingort, Dahlia (U.S. Team)
Abu Arquob, Huba (Middle East Team)
Zakarani, Kindi (Founder, Middle East Team)

U.S. TEAM:

Director, user experience and production designer, writer, producer, cinematographer... Gaben Chancellor is an award-winning creative director, cross-media director and 30-year user interface designer who's design, marketing and technology innovation has included work with Apple, B.B. King, Intel, Dolby Labs, and many others.

For more information on Gaben or his company, check out: www.gabenchancellor.com and www.contentx.com

Martin Guigui has directed 6 Feature Films, written 12 screenplays and Executive Produced 7 movies.  Guigui has also produced over 30 music albums.  Born in Buenos Aires Argentina, son of Famed Symphony Orchestra Conductor Maestro Efrain Guigui, Martin grew up in New York, Puerto Rico and Vermont.  Guigui began his film career while a student at Hofstra University and soon thereafter won several student film festival awards for his shorts and documentary films. Guigui worked the New York stand-up circuit, caroused at Saturday Night Live, was an editor/sound engineer at ABCNews, Produced documentaries for PBS highlights including music driven documentaries with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Sun Ra. Guigui also enjoyed acting stints, starring in the indie cult classic “Time Chasers.”  Guigui then wrote his first feature film, “My X-Girlfriend’s Wedding” and went on to direct and star in the quirky comedy with Dom DeLuise and Debbie Gibson.  Tooted by Rolling Stone as the “Spinal Tap of wedding receptions” the culty favorite won critical acclaim garnering “Best Comedy” and “Audience Favorite” awards throughout the festival circuit worldwide.

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For more information, check out: www.martinguigui.com

CEO/Chief Designer for Brilliant Media, an award-winning interactive consultancy and software firm founded in 1992. Brilliant’s work combines cutting-edge interactive media design with a deep understanding of information usability, user experience savvy, and a knack for attracting and retaining audiences.  Dozens of clients here and abroad, from Warner Bros. to DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Deloitte & Touche to Peter Gabriel, have relied on Brilliant Media for innovative results.

For more information, check out: www.brilliantmedia.com

Lydia is a director, writer, designer, artist and educator with rich experience in both the fine art and commercial art worlds. Her work for Dolby Labs, Zoran, NetApp and other major media and technology companies has broken ground in the areas of user experience and product design. Her applied skill in the co-creation and refinement of our website and video projects has been invaluable.

In his business life David has enjoyed 25+-years of experience as a venture catalyst; a business and economic development executive, investor and/or board member/advisor to over 35 startup, early stage and multi-national and government entities; an executive producer of multiple commercial digital media products and content for the major record labels; and as a philanthropist. He has initiated due diligence upon and co-raised and deployed more than $30 million for 20 ventures, with non-profit, education and sustainable-centric entities an increasingly large percentage of his current portfolio.  In addition to Unityfor.org, David's other non-profit activities include an educational fellowship with the philanthropic venture entity www.fullcirclefund.org, and a production contribution to the Green Inaugural Ball, Washington DC, January 19th, Al Gore presiding.  David earned a Masters in Education in 1990 from Harvard University with a focus on optimizing economic and career development and “human capital” via entertainment interfaces/informal media, while conducting simultaneous class-work at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard’s Business School. In 1984 he earned his undergraduate degrees in rhetoric and film with honors from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Born in Miami, trained at England’s Oxford School of Drama, and with the likes of Richard Attenborough and Arthur Miller, Dahlia has caressed stages as an actress with memorable performances ranging from London’s National Theatre production of Twelfth Night to the John Anson Ford Theatre’s production of Much Ado About Nothing in Los Angeles. Best known for her starring role alongside Ann-Margaret and Sonia Braga as a series regular on the CBS drama series FOUR CORNERS, and as a recurring guest star in FELICITY, Dahlia went on to work with Burt Reynolds in “HARD TIME” and co-starred in “THE GIFT.”  As a production executive Dahlia is currently Producing the feature film “SWEETWATER” and is Executive Producing “RAGING BULL II”.  She is COO and Executive VP of Development and Production at Sunset Pictures, a member of SAG and a founding member along with Jimmy Smits, Sonia Braga and Esai Morales of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts.

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MIDDLE EAST TEAM:

one of twelve children, was born in Jerusalem and raised in Hebron. Her parents were both teachers and she chose to follow in their footsteps, obtaining her diploma in teaching English as a Second Language, a BA in Education and English Literature from Al-Quds Open University, and a Master's degree in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, where she served as a Fulbright Scholar from 2004-06. Huda is active in grassroots Palestinian initiatives focusing on issues related to human rights and gender equality, and is a member of several local Palestinian organizations that work on empowering women to be more active in building a healthy society. Through her activities she has worked with organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children International, United Religions Initiative (URI), and the Boston-based University of the Middle East Project (UME). Prior to joining Abraham's Vision she worked as an educational consultant for the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Education. Huda is also a Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Transformative Education.

Hatem Jabsheh has been working in the financial brokerage and trading world with market leaders such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Stark Investments for more than a decade. In 2004 he moved back to Amman, Jordan to set up his own brokerage firm in 2004 and successfully sold it in early 2010 to dedicate significant time to building the Unity For Foundation. Hatem is a graduate of Marquette University with a major in Finance and International Business and a Minor in History.

Sulaiman Khatib from Ramallah, Palestine, is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of People's Peace Fund, the first international Palestinian-Israeli fund for conciliation. Sulaiman spent over 10 years in Israeli jails from age of 14 following his active role to resist the Israeli occupation. Since early 2008 he is also co-leading a grassroots dialog project called Wounded Xrossing Borders that is centered on people wounded in the Palestinian-Israeli-Arab conflict and belonging to the socio-political mainstreams of their societies. A more detailed bio is on www.peoplespeacefund.org/Co_Founders.html

Kindi is an engineering-centric entrepreneur. Having recently sold a factory in Amman, Jordan, he is recently set up a mold business to supply various international manufacturers, and is currently setting up yet another new factory in Qatar. With respect to philanthropy Kindi has always been an advocate for peace and tolerance, and is a founding member of unityfor.org. He is a graduate of Perdue University with an engineering degree specializing in industrial engineering.

Gadi Kenny from Tel Aviv, Israel, is the Co Founder and Co Executive Director of People's Peace Fund, the first international Palestinian-Israeli fund for conciliation. Gadi has an MA in Intentional Communications from American University, DC. Since 2008 he is also co-leading of a grassroots dialog project called Wounded Xrossing Borders which is centered around people wounded in the Palestinian-Israeli-Arab conflict and belonging to the socio-political mainstreams of their societies. A more detailed bio is on www.peoplespeacefund.org/Co_Founders.html

FOUNDERS:

Martin Guigui has directed 6 Feature Films, written 12 screenplays and Executive Produced 7 movies.  Guigui has also produced over 30 music albums.  Born in Buenos Aires Argentina, son of Famed Symphony Orchestra Conductor Maestro Efrain Guigui, Martin grew up in New York, Puerto Rico and Vermont.  Guigui began his film career while a student at Hofstra University and soon thereafter won several student film festival awards for his shorts and documentary films. Guigui worked the New York stand-up circuit, caroused at Saturday Night Live, was an editor/sound engineer at ABCNews, Produced documentaries for PBS highlights including music driven documentaries with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Sun Ra. Guigui also enjoyed acting stints, starring in the indie cult classic “Time Chasers.”  Guigui then wrote his first feature film, “My X-Girlfriend’s Wedding” and went on to direct and star in the quirky comedy with Dom DeLuise and Debbie Gibson.  Tooted by Rolling Stone as the “Spinal Tap of wedding receptions” the culty favorite won critical acclaim garnering “Best Comedy” and “Audience Favorite” awards throughout the festival circuit worldwide.

To read more, click here...

For more information, you can also check out: www.martinguigui.com

Hatem Jabsheh has been working in the financial brokerage and trading world with market leaders such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Stark Investments for more than a decade. In 2004 he moved back to Amman, Jordan to set up his own brokerage firm in 2004 and successfully sold it in early 2010 to dedicate significant time to building the Unity For Foundation. Hatem is a graduate of Marquette University with a major in Finance and International Business and a Minor in History.

In his business life David has enjoyed 25+-years of experience as a venture catalyst; a business and economic development executive, investor and/or board member/advisor to over 35 startup, early stage and multi-national and government entities; an executive producer of multiple commercial digital media products and content for the major record labels; and as a philanthropist. He has initiated due diligence upon and co-raised and deployed more than $30 million for 20 ventures, with non-profit, education and sustainable-centric entities an increasingly large percentage of his current portfolio.  In addition to Unityfor.org, David's other non-profit activities include an educational fellowship with the philanthropic venture entity www.fullcirclefund.org, and a production contribution to the Green Inaugural Ball, Washington DC, January 19th, Al Gore presiding.  David earned a Masters in Education in 1990 from Harvard University with a focus on optimizing economic and career development and “human capital” via entertainment interfaces/informal media, while conducting simultaneous class-work at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard’s Business School. In 1984 he earned his undergraduate degrees in rhetoric and film with honors from the University of California at Berkeley.

To read more, click here...

Kindi is an engineering-centric entrepreneur. Having recently sold a factory in Amman, Jordan, he is recently set up a mold business to supply various international manufacturers, and is currently setting up yet another new factory in Qatar. With respect to philanthropy Kindi has always been an advocate for peace and tolerance, and is a founding member of unityfor.org. He is a graduate of Perdue University with an engineering degree specializing in industrial engineering.

Gaben Chancellor & ContentX - cross event website design/production, production services, video, photography, and writing.

Jerry Moran, Native Orleanian Fine Photography - Harmony for Health photography

Lydia Passannante - website design/production, production services, video, writing, and voice over.

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