Ayssar Arida

Ayssar Arida

CEO, MakerBrane
Ayssar Arida is a British-Lebanese design entrepreneur, author and polymath who designed, coded, and built everything from video games to billion dollar urban developments. He is the co-founder and CEO of MakerBrane (https://makerbrane.com), a digital and physical platform working to disrupt the $130B global toy industry. Previously, Ayssar ran Q-DAR development-architecture-research in London and was the MENA representative for NYC’s Parsons School of Design. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Architecture from AUB and a MA in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University.