Soliya has a dynamic and talented board of directors to lead the Soliya Team.

Suhail Rizvi Chairman of the Board - Mr. Rizvi is Chairman of Rizvi Traverse Management an investment firm with investments in several media companies including International Creative Management, Newbridge Film Capital and Summit Entertainment. Since he started his first business at the age of 15 he has led the acquisition of over 40 companies in diverse industries including media & entertainment, private aviation, outsource manufacturing, telecom, internet services, distribution and financial services. Mr. Rizvi is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the Wharton Undergraduate Board.

Adam Berrey Vice Chairman of the Board - Mr. Berrey is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Brightcove. Prior to that he was the President of Onfolio, and the Vice President of Marketing at Macromedia. He is also co-founder of Allaire Corporation.

Yasmin Alireza - Ms. Alireza is CFO and co-founder of Blossom Mother and Child Limited. She worked for Bechtel Enterprises (BEn) in the Middle East and Europe. Ms. Alireza is a trustee of the Al-Madad Foundation and is on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Arab Alumni Association.

Jim Berk - Mr. Berk is CEO of Participant Media, a leading producer of media for social change. Prior to Participant, Jim was the President & CEO at Gryphon Colleges, Fairfield Communities and Hard Rock Cafe International. He founded the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Foundation and, as Principal of Alexander Hamilton High School, was the youngest principal in the history of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Jim began his career as a music teacher at Carson High in LA. He serves on the Boards of Summit Entertainment, Gryphon Investors, and Community in Schools – Los Angeles.

Liza Chambers Co-Founder & Chief Program Officer - Prior to her work with Soliya, Ms. Chambers worked as Program Manager at Conflict Management Group and as Program Director at the National Conference for Community and Justice, directing dialogue programs at the grassroots and track-two levels.  She worked for Seeds of Peace, facilitating dialogue for youth from the Middle East, Cyprus and the Balkans.  She obtained her Masters from the Kennedy School at Harvard University and is a term member at the Council of Foreign Relations.  Along with Lucas Welch, Liza was named one of the “world’s best emerging social entrepreneurs” in 2004 by the Echoing Green Foundation.

Jeremy Goldberg Finance Committee Chair - Mr. Goldberg was the Director of Development at Seeds of Peace, where he built one of the most effective fundraising operations in the field.  Over the course of 2008, he played a central role in fundraising and youth mobilization for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. He now directs a consulting firm advising international non-profits on strategic planning, development, and communications.

Shamil Idriss Chief Executive Officer - Mr. Idriss served as Executive Director of the Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund which merged with Soliya in 2009. In 2005 he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as Deputy Director of the Alliance of Civilizations.  He served on the Steering Committee of the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders and as COO of Search for Common Ground, a global conflict resolution organization. He is a member of the WEF’s Young Global Leaders and of the ASMA Society’s Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow.

Anthony Limberis - Mr. Limberis is currently serving as a Managing Director of Fisher Lynch Capital. Fisher Lynch Capital is a private equity firm investing in premier private equity buyout funds, venture capital funds, and sponsored coinvestments. Prior to joining Fisher Lynch Capital, he was a Portfolio Manager at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Dalia Mogahed - Ms. Mogahed is a Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a nonpartisan research center dedicated to providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world. With John L. Esposito, Ph.D., she is coauthor of the book Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. Dalia was recently appointed to the President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, where she serves on the Inter-religious dialogue and cooperation task force. Mogahed also serves on the boards of Freedom House and Women in International Security (WIIS). Her analysis has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy magazine, the Harvard International Review, the Middle East Policy journal, and many other academic and popular journals.

Farhad Mohit - In 1996, Mr. Mohit founded Bizrate.com, now the world’s largest consumer feedback platform. In 1999, he created a comparison-shopping service which is now known as Shopzilla and is one of the largest shopping sites in the world, facilitating over $3 billion in gross merchandise sales. He is currently working to establish DotSpots, an open and social annotation system for the web, enabling anyone to add notes, links and comments to any piece of information on the web. With DotSpots, he hopes to bring the power of Wikipedia – the wisdom of crowds -- to every document on the web.

Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr. - Mr. Pelletreau is a former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. During his 35-year Foreign Service career, he served in nine Arab countries including as Ambassador to Bahrain (1979-1980), Ambassador to Tunisia (1987-1991) and Ambassador to Egypt (1991-1993). While in Tunisia, he conducted the first official US dialogue with the P.L.O.. He also served twice as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.

Elizabeth Riker - Ms. Riker currently serves as the Portfolio Director at New Profit, Inc. Prior to that she served as a consultant with the Monitor Group working with both for-profit and non-profit clients on issues of strategy and organizational development. In addition, Ms. Riker has taught and worked on educational development projects in the U.S., Latin America, and Africa.

Dina Sherif - Ms. Sherif has been the Associate Director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement since it was established in 2006 at the American University in Cairo. She also has extensive experience in development at the local level in Egypt through her work at the Institute for Cultural Affairs in the Middle East and North Africa, and her work at Environmental Quality International.

Kaleil D. Isaza Tuzman - Mr. Tuzman is Chairman and CEO of KIT Digital. He has been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in digital media since the late 90s, as managing partner of a New York-based merchant bank, KIT Capital (formerly Recognition Group). He has served as President & COO of JumpTV Inc. (AIM, TSX: JTV), President & CEO of JumpTV International FZ-LLC, Chairman & CEO of KPE, Inc., and Chairman & CEO of govWorks, Inc. Mr. Tuzman has been a term member of the Council of Foreign Relations, a U.S. trade representative, and was recently named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Magazine.

Lucas Welch Founder & Chief Innovation Officer - Prior to his work with Soliya, Mr. Welch worked as a producer for ABC News working with Peter Jennings, taught media at Birzeit University in the West Bank, and conducted research at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.  He also worked as Director of Communications for America Abroad Media and served as Associate Producer on “The Shape of the Future” – a documentary series produced in Arabic, Hebrew, English, and French about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Along with Liza Chambers, he was named one of the “world’s best emerging social entrepreneurs” in 2004 by the Echoing Green Foundation.