Wafaa is a Syrian woman moved to the United States of America in 2013. She volunteered in Syria for more than five years in social development programs where she spearheaded several projects to empower local citizens, increase their leadership skills and provide refugee advocacy. Wafaa holds a dual master's degrees in sustainable international development and conflict resolution from the Heller School at Brandeis University.

Severin has experience leading product development, establishing partnerships and leading a machine learning team. He is a seasoned web developer, backend operations engineer and product manager. He has experience developing systems at TripAdvisor and has worked at several startups in a wide array of fields including manufacturing computer aided design tooling, cryptocurrency applications, online software development.