Meet The Team.
Visionaries, rebels, crazed inventors, best-selling authors, ambitious entrepreneurs, people who believe they can change the world…
These are the people we call our employees, partners and authors.
The people who make Mindvalley unique: a tight team of the best minds from 30 different countries. If you like what you see, we invite you to join us as we are hiring all year round to fuel our growth.
Executive Team.
Vishen Lakhiani
Co-founder CEO
Highly successful online entrepreneur, sought after speaker, an inspiration, and a total personal growth junkie. He’s on a quest to redesign education, heighten human consciousness, and have a ton of fun doing it.
Justyna Jastrzebska
Senior Partner
With a knack for relationship marketing, Justyna runs Mindvalley Publishing’s Personal Growth division and manages the team of Brand Managers that run our best-selling products and sites. Full bio here »
Ewa Wysocka
Senior Partner
The brains behind Mindvalley’s Product Launches. She’s responsible for some of the highest converting websites produced at MindValley & is perhaps the most prolific product launch expert in the personal growth publishing industry with 9 hits in 2011 alone. Full bio here »
Ajit Nawalkha
Senior Partner
Ajit’s background is in business process optimization and marketing. In 2010 Ajit setup our printing arm in India. In 2011 he established Mindvalley India which brings American authors and training programs to this country of 1.2 Billion people. Full bio here »
Co-Founders and Partners.
Kristina
Co-founder, Mindvalley Russia
An entrepreneurial whiz, Kristina has helped Mindvalley succeed in its infant years and now brings Mindvalley products to the ever growing Russian Market. She’s also a philanthropist, a mother, and an artist.
Juan
Co-founder, Mindvalley Hispano
Ironman competitor, business strategist and co-founder of Mindvalley Hispano. Mindvalley’s former COO, Juan now heads up our operations in the Spanish language market. Mindvalley Hispano is now one of the biggest digital Personal Growth publishers in the Hispanic Market with over half a million subscribers and 7 figures in revenue. Full bio here »
Irina
Co-founder, Mindvalley Russia
Born in Estonia, Irina moved to Malaysia two years ago and has since served as the co-founder of Mindvalley Russian (MVR). With more than eight years of experience in sales and marketing, Irina proves an asset to the MindValley team with MVR noted as the largest Silva seminar in Russia in June 2011. With further bragging rights as co-author of Dzenprinimatel, an Internet marketing Russian product.
Cecilia Sardeo
Co-founder, Mindvalley Italy
Bursting with energy and a talent for Aikido, Cecilia is a health freak and has the flexibility of a rubber string. Cecilia is an SEO specialist and the co-founder of Mindvalley Italy. At a young age, she built up one of the top SEO consultancies in Italy with a loyal fan following. When she is not turning around businesses, she is getting dirty with life changing products and raising consciousness of the country of pizza and pasta. Full bio here »
Amir Ahmad
Co-founder, Mindvalley Arabic
An entrepreneurial activist, Amir is on a mission to empower aspiring change-makers with tools for bigger impact. He’s been featured and quoted by various media outlets including The New Yorker, USA Today, the BBC, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera. He’s also been a participant and speaker at events organized by Harvard’s Berkman Center and MIT. After the revolutions that swept the Arab world in 2011, Amir immediately recognized the importance of helping develop the region’s hot e-commerce scene and spreading self-empowerment online education in the realms of entrepreneurship, career growth and wellness. The result is Mindvalley Arabic. Full bio here »
Management Team.
Veena
Director of Affiliates & Partnerships
Veena’s team at Mindvalley focuses on building strong business partnerships while having a lot of fun promoting some of the highest converting offers in the industry. Did we mention; she also has the unique and special ability to write backwards and majored in genetics and biotechnology. Full bio here »
Kaileen Sherk
Director of Product Development
Is a rockstar teacher of Neuro-Lingusitic Programming, Hypnotherapy,& Reiki. She’s done energy work since the age of eight and is passionate about bringing success to personal development online. Full bio here »
Grace
Director of Customer Happiness
After graduating in Journalism from University of South Australia, Grace branched off into the training arena where she sharpened her people-loving skills through years of marketing and facilitating training programs. At work, Grace is always such a bubble of joy one tends to wonder if her happy juices are legal. When she’s not touching the hearts of customers from all over the world, she’s a self-confessed personal development junkie.
Celeste
Senior Brand Manager
Although she may be the loudest in the crowd, this American girl is an evolving ball of dynamic energy. From performing like a rockstar for the Silva business, to creating a masterpiece in the kitchen, Celeste is a life-long athlete turned to yogi who enjoys life by giving 110% to every adventure and challenge set before her.
Anna
Senior Brand Manager
If people were vehicles, Anna would be an intergalactic rocket ship. In just 2 short years she’s shot up from Customer Support to Brand Manager for one of Mindvalley’s biggest online properties. How? She says it’s her passion for conversions and online business metrics. We say it’s because she’s one of the most talented yet humble Polish exports we’ve ever hired..
Marketing.
Omar
Head of Copywriting
Omar (a.k.a. The Centaur) is an enigma wrapped in a riddle. But don’t let his aloof charms fool you. He’s a softie at heart who rescues animals. But when he’s not writing copy for the largest sites in Mindvalley, he’s off DJing and reading subversive literature.
Loshini
JV & Affiliate Manager
Loshini’s the best friend you’ve yet to meet – she connects with anyone in a heartbeat! Which explains why she enjoys traveling so much and meeting new people all over the world. She’s traversed the Middle East, Australia, the US and South East Asia, and she’s far from done. Equipped with a degree in Political Science, this travel bug is set on a mission to build and strengthen Mindvalley partnerships. (Caution: her enthusiasm is infectious!)
Natalia
Social Media Manager
Natalia delights brings sunshine into the world by managing, delighting, and dazzling our customers and target market. When she’s not keeping our customers happy, she’s traveling to far off places or curling up with a good book in hand.
Georgiy
Web Traffic Specialist
Georgiy utilizes white magic SEO techniques to bring crowds of people to the hot content on MV blogs via search engines. He recharges his magic batteries by hiking in the jungles of South East Asia, partying in nightclubs of Kuala Lumpur or jogging in the park.
Khairi
Web Traffic Specialist
Khairi is a traffic specialist and focuses to bring people interested in personal growth and spirituality together. In his spare time he kicks back and simply enjoys life.
Simona Goldin
Product Launch Manager
A self-declared passive income junkie and entrepreneur, Simona developed a real estate investment business at the early age of 23 and speaks 4 languages. Boasting degrees in psychology, marketing, and art history, Simona capitalizes on her background in marketing to craft novel strategies and brand products for Mindvalley.
Joukje
Affiliate Manager
Hailing from Holland with a Bachelors in Commercial Communication, Joukje manages our affiliate communications. She fell in love with the Mindvalley culture during a trip to Malaysia and now strives to bring this infectious positive energy into all our affiliate communications. When not in the office she loves exploring the islands of South East Asia or chilling with a glass of wine.
Ezekiel
Launch Operations Manager
Ezekiel is a tinkerer. He looks at something, figures out how all the pieces fit together, and finds a way to make it run better; When he’s not looking at numbers, charts, or finding something else to improve, you can find him on stage entertaining people, or pursuing his passion of inspiring the youth to drive positive change in the world.
Dana
Product Development
A student of art, economics, and psychology, Dana changes the word, “problem” to “lesson” and “struggle” to “opportunity”, a self-practice which exudes Dana’s positive energy as the product development manager for Mindvalley. Drawing inspiration from novels by Lao Tzu with The Tao Te Ching to the lives of leaders such as Wayne Dyer and Carl Jung, Dana infuses life-changing and mind-transforming approaches as a leader for Mindvalley’s product development team.
Mindvalley Technology.
Calvin
Web Applications Developer
As a self-confessed techno-gadget addict, Calvin cannot live without anything programmable. Combine this with his love of anything that blinks, bleeps, and confuses the rest of the marketing team and you’ve got one helluva developer.
Tristan
Top Coder + Chief Problem Solver
When he’s not ballroom dancing, this enigmatic developer and designer brilliantly executes the most complex of code and mock-ups with a few clicks here and there. Outside the office, Tristan dabbles in Ruby programming and wows the girls with his dance moves.
Gareth
Web Security
Plainly speaking, Gareth is a hacker – he has an innate sense for solving problems (some of which were caused by him breaking things). Qualified in both technical and international management standards (OPST and ISO27001) he has dealt with highly critical projects for national government bodies, financial institutions, national telecommunication companies and other Fortune 500 companies. He is also passionate about photography, cooking, SCUBA diving and travel.
Mark
MongoDB Developer
Mark has been living in Malaysia since he was 18. Growing-up on a generous serving of web-technology, he has been a freelancer, a founder and innovator. Obsessed by all things OpenSource, he was recently awarded “Most Innovative App of The Year” at MongoSV in Silicon-Valley for MongoPress; the NoSQL CMS. With over 15 years experience in design and development, he has a comprehensive understanding of technology and how it can be applied to both current and future business and marketing trends.
Mindvalley Films.
Gloria Kurnik
Director of Mindvalley Films
A born backpacker, tea addict, lived and worked in 8 countries. She started her journey over 2 years ago having just 10 euros in her pocket and since then traveled across the Europe, Australia and Asia to finally, by a chain of coincidences, end up in Malaysia.
Crystal Kay
Videographer and Editor
Watching too much TV wasn’t such a bad habit after all. Crystal has managed to make a living out of editing videos and fussing over pixels like her life depended on it. Now if only we can make her stop yelling at the monitors.
Deo Mareza
Fancy Animations & Special Effects
Despite of being silent and soft spoken during most of his sober time, Deo is a passionate metalhead as well as an avid drummer. Self proclaimed beer enthusiast, he enjoys indian food and hanging out in a pub. Oh, and he produces some darn good motion graphic too.
Al Ibrahim
Editor and Cameraman
Al is a writer, photographer and filmmaker — basically an all-round creative enthusiast who really knows where his towel is. His three favorite directors are Lars Von Trier, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Jim Jarmusch. He also loves alliteration, cute cuddly cats and coconut-caramel ice-cream.
Our Design Team.
Wu Han
Artist in Chief
Wu Han is a user-experience genius and super hero designer, creating websites you want to lick. When he’s not delivering digital eye-candy, he’s hanging out with his 3 adorable kids, Brandon, Andrea, and Reuben. Ladies, you may go Aww, now.
Sheue
Web Designer
Sheue is an enigma. At first glance, she’s a wunderkind at design, but dig deeper and you’ll realize she’s a cello-playing programmer focused on communication, interaction, and creativity. Every day, Sheue inspires people with her music and rainbow-colored toe socks.
Chee Ling
Web Design
With an interest for arts and crafts as well as design, Chee Ling uses her talent and experience to develop engaging and genius web layouts for Mindvalley. Web-designer by day and prankster by night, Chee Ling lends her enthusiasm and creativity to serve as a lead design asset to the Mindvalley team.
Chee Seng
Web Design
Behind every successful online entrepreneur there is a geeky asian tech web ninja. He slices &.During the day, he sleeps and pours himself in the study of design but at nights he shape shifts into a code ninja to turn these ideas into reality. Truly making him indispensable to our design team!
Paulius
Photography & Graphic Design
“Designer outside, photographer inside, that’s Paulius. He is a guy who during last 6 years of his design career built a solid client portfolio. Worked with MTV, Western Union, Discovery Channel, Westin Hotel, The Netherlands Embassy in Beijing, Esquire, Dove, etc. “Never stop improving and exploring!” is his motto.”
Customer Happiness Team.
Samantha
Mindvalley Experience Manager
In charge of Mindvalley’s largest community and customer base, Sam’s a rock star extraordinaire. Armed with a background in Business Marketing, she merges bleeding-edge business models with the timeless principles of hospitality, customer service and good old fashioned kindness. When she has time off, you’ll find her exploring and living it up at sandy beaches, exotic locales and trendy cities across the world.
Zikry
Mindvalley Experience Manager
A globetrotting third culture kid, ex radio DJ and former National ice hockey player, Zikry shares his electrifying passion for life with everyone he meets. And when we say electrifying, we mean it. This brave User Experience enthusiast once survived a severe electric shock from a faulty lamp post, immortalizing him as Mindvalley’s very own “Electroman”.
Kristi
Mindvalley Experience Manager
With years of customer happiness experience under her belt back in her native Estonia, Kristie wows our customers by her unique charm of sweetness and lovability. When she’s not reading philosophy or rollerskating, you can find her taking long walks in the forest and getting in touch with nature.
Grayson
Mindvalley Experience Manager
Brazen adventurer by nature and aspiring computer nerd by choice, Grayson is an absolute user experience trailblazer. In his free time he sleeps – and dreams up the next big thing.
Operations Team.
Nicole
Accounts and Finance Manager
Whoever thought accounting was boring hasn’t met Nicole. This wonderkind juggles a billion tasks, while calculating the bottom line, and hence our bonus checks. On top of taking care of our accounts, Nicole keeps the office zen and happy. PS: She’s got a gorgeous afro.
Mindvalley Planet.
Marina
Copywriter, Mindvalley Hispano
Marina draws on her eclectic marketing experience to serve as the head copywriter of Mindvalley Hispano, where she injects her enthusiasm, love, and vibrant energy to empower her readers. In her spare time, she writes shocking science fiction.
Liuba
Copywriter, Mindvalley Russia
As a young girl who began meditation at 13, she combines her knowledge of personal growth with her degree in sociology to deliver the best service to the Mindvalley community and customer base. When she’s not at work, you can find her hiking in the woods.
Melanie
Community Manager, Mindvalley Hispano
This half-Chinese half-Peruvian does it all. When she’s not delivering stellar customer service, Melanie is taking on new projects, implementing and executing at lightning speeds, and growing Mindvalley Hispano. To top it off, she’s a veteran traveler too.
Iga
Project Manager, Mindvalley Poland
This fiesty Polish girl is the engine fuelling Mindvalley’s expansion into her native country. A secret Jamaican dancehall queen, Iga rocks the dancefloors of KL’s underground scene when she’s not reading up on Spanish literature and claiming championship in pro-poker tournaments.
Artem
Project Manager & Copywriter, Mindvalley Russia
With a passion for entrepreneurship, psychology and management, Artem brings cutting-edge marketing knowledge into the Russian-speaking internet world. When not at work, he’s involved in a number of sports from snowboarding to capoeira and dreams about changing the course of Ukrainian history.
Yelena
Project Manager, Mindvalley Russia
Yelena is the office golden girl who refuses to sit still. Amongst her many passions that include daily yoga, marathon running and mountaineering, Yelena is on a mission to get our content to over 1 million Russian souls by year end. When not gleefully floating around the office or seeing the world, she can be found cutting a rug on dance floors all over KL.