Saniya Chughtai…CEO and Founder of The Wadi Tribe Philanthropist, Serial Entrepreneur, Business Consultant, Children’s Author, Interior Architect and International Designer. She has appeared on Design shows such as “Showhouse” on Ireland’s national television network RTÉ, for several seasons. She won the People choice award in INDEX exhibition, Dubai for the contemporary Majlis design. She has also written 5 successful children’s book under the series ”The Adventures of Chee & Dae ”. The first book has been translated into Arabic & Urdu. She recently ventured into film, making a short documentary titled “The Story of the Storyteller”. This won the best short documentary at the GUTech short film category at the Muscat International Film Festival 2016 in Oman. She took TWT to the Finals in Richard Branson’s VOOM 2016 competition. She loves reading, telling stories and traveling. Her favourite pastime is spending time with children. She is high on life!

Advisor
Brendan McKittrick is an established executive who has worked in over 12 countries across many fields of expertise. Brendan says that he never considers The Wadi Tribe to be work as its fun and rewarding to see so many people benefit from the stories and the Social Emotional Learning programmes. Brendan is a life-long member of the GAA and has played football and hurling with many clubs over four continents on his travels, and says that it’s community based approach makes it the greatest sporting organisation on earth. He is sure that Tach the Hurler will definitely get to visit more GAA clubs worldwide than he has!