There's something beautiful about meeting someone in business who tells you how they can help you — that's an environment you don't always find. Words on a rollup banner like "authentic" and "deep connection" are nice, but they can be exaggerated and over-promising. What I found is that these things actually happen. I'm amazed and impressed, and I see ReSET as a great place for building these relationships and reconnecting with yourself and others.
A standing invitation into a room of peers as invested in your success as you are.
Community is a vetted, curated circle of founders and executives who have moved past the networking stage and are looking for genuine sounding boards. No exclusive Slacks that become spam. Just a small, serious group of people who share what is actually hard and help each other move forward.
What you get
What membership enables.
Peer Intelligence
- Sit in a curated 5–8 person peer circle that meets monthly — same people, matched by business stage, industry, and what you're actually solving. Real trust builds over time, not over a single dinner.
- Bring your real strategic problems to a monthly 90-minute peer advisory session — hot-seat format, structured, accountable.
- Access the network's collective intelligence on the decisions that matter: market entry, organizational design, capital strategy, talent.
- Get honest peer challenge from people who have no incentive to tell you what you want to hear.
Experiences and Access
- Attend any experience with priority registration.
- Receive a reserved seat at the Annual Summit before public applications open.
- Join community-organized city meetups when passing through a member city.
- Co-create future programming and retreat themes with the core team.
Support and Resources
- Work with a professional executive coach for the decisions that sit between strategy and psychology.
- Access a therapist for the personal dimension of the work — because how you are affects how you lead.
- Attend live sessions with curated practitioners — people doing serious work, not professional speakers.
- Access the full archive: recordings, frameworks, and working documents from every edition.
Network and Platform
- Build a verified profile in the member directory — the network's internal reference for who to call.
- Be featured in Nafa media as a practitioner building with purpose: podcast, essays, case studies.
- Participate in working groups that form organically around shared challenges and shared markets.
- Join a network designed to compound — the more serious work members do together, the more valuable the room becomes.
Peers
Eight peers per circle. All MENA. All operating.
A taste of the kind of leaders we curate around. Members are matched into 8-person circles on stage, sector, and life chapter.
Ali Nagy
Founder and CEO · Castle Eye
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Yahya Zakaria
Managing Director · Nasj Ventures
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Ahmed Shoukri
CEO · Qeema
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Eslam Anbar
Founder and CEO · PhiWallet
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Abdulla Al-Naimi
Managing Director · Doha Business Consulting DBC
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Mohamed Nabil
Founder and CEO · WideBot AI
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Abdelrahman Omran
Founder & CEO · Rinvex
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Khaled Al-Adba
Founder & CEO · Rowwad Advisory
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In the room
Organizations our members lead and build.
In their own words
Reflections from past cohorts.
Honest framing
Who this is not for.
Membership is not for everyone — and being specific about that is what makes the room worth being in.
- If your primary goal is generating leads, building a pipeline, or finding clients: this is the wrong room. Our no-solicitation norm is the architecture of the network, not a suggestion.
- If you want passive access to content, recordings, or resources without showing up: there are better platforms at lower prices.
- If you are not willing to be honest about what is actually happening in your business — with yourself or with your peers: the vetting process will surface that, and we will save both of us the time.
The process
How vetting works.
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Apply.
Tell us what you're building and why you need a . About 10 minutes. Reflective questions, not a resume exercise.
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We review every application.
No AI screening, no algorithms. A person reads it — usually Yahya or a member of the core team.
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A conversation if aligned.
A 15-minute call. Not an interview. A conversation to confirm the match and the timing.
- 4
The decision.
You're in — or we'll tell you honestly why it's not the right fit yet, and what we'd suggest instead.
Cohorts are kept intentionally small because size is the enemy of depth.