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One of them was Zeina El Kaissi, who joined as the Chief Digital Director. She had worked with me in my previous role in the Dubai Executive Office, then started her own IT solutions company. Once I had been assigned to run Smart Dubai, I called her to tell we had a new challenge and mission and to see if she wanted to join. Immediately, she jumped onboard and was one of the main members in the decision-making layer in Smart Dubai. She handled our strategy, and she was like a joker in the playing cards that you can throw anywhere, given the way she thought with her consultancy experience. She could always read the reality and then suggest where to go forward.

Another key team member was a younger guy named Hamad Alawadhi. He handled the network platform and was responsible for our communication and connecting to all the government entities. He had a civic engineer background, a master's degree from Imperial College in London. But he was so fond of the happiness agenda and how we could spread positiveness and happiness with proper communication with people. I immediately recruited him for it and handed him a special project on championing the platform, building human relations with others.