Thirty years of work have taken me through Engineering, Major Capital Projects, Military Service, and Specialised Operations. I built my foundation as a chartered Mechanical Engineer and Project Leader, delivering complex Oil & Gas Assets, Infrastructure, Petro-Chemical Complexes, Water Systems, and Asset Management Programs across Australia, Middle East, and Asia. Along the way, I worked with some of the world's largest oil and gas operators, including Shell, Chevron, Woodside, OilSearch, ENI, and IGC Petrochem, leading teams through Commissioning, Reliability Improvements, Shutdowns, and long-term Integrity planning and management.

In parallel to my engineering career, I served in Tier-1 Special Operations, providing discreet support to government entities through Special Services Global and Beta Epsilon. That work demanded precision, judgement, and the ability to operate in environments where there was no margin for error.

Today, I bring both paths together as Global Operations Director at Covert Kinetics. The company extends years of experience in sensitive missions and high-stakes project environments, now focused on Investigative Intelligence, OSINT, HUMINT, and Specialised Operational Support for organisations and leadership teams across borders.My skill set is a blend of Technical Depth and Operational Awareness. Asset Integrity, Cyber Exposure, Project Delivery, Data analytics, Risk Identification, Behavioural Assessment, and Strategic Decision Spport all sit at the centre of the work I do. 

The goal is always the same, whether for a national project or a confidential investigation: uncover risks before they surface and strengthen the systems that protect people, assets, and investments.I connect with those who value insight, clarity, and confidentiality, especially in environments where informed decisions matter most.

Waseem Rehman

Fenja Vespermann

Founder / 3D Designer + Creative Director @hooraystudio / passionate about interactive fashion design, new technologies and web3

Every founder I know built the thing they were missing.
For me, that was a faster, less frustrating way to prototype 3D ideas without killing creative momentum.

I come from the trenches of digital production - building for clients, pitching at midnight, re-rendering scenes till they looked just right.
Now, I'm building Mimikry.ai with focus on integrating responsible AI into brand-specific pipelines that let brands move faster, explore more, and still own their vision.

I’m not here to automate away the craft.
I’m here to make space for it.

If you want to see more what I am currently building, check here: www.mimikry.ai

Founder, Digital Designer

hooray is a global new media creative studio with a pioneering innovator in the creative field. The studio brings together abstract, elemental, and contemporary artists with a futuristic approach, creating excellence in areas such as animation, house mapping, and AR/VR applications. Together they create a place where art and technology finally find a home. 


I got rejected by my own life 5 times.
Then I glazed ceramics for a living to pay my rent. 

Now, the biggest companies in the world pay us to build their AI.

Here's the real story:
At 19 I started my first company. At 22 I was leading a tech team in Berlin.
I had a huge run but in the end it failed. 
Then I tried again. 
Failed. 
Again. 
Failed. 
Again. 
Failed.
5 startups. 5 times, everything I built turned to nothing. 
Can you imagine what my mother went through?

2 years ago I glazed ceramics as a mini job to get some money. Not for fun. Not for "the experience." Because I had zero left. 

I remember thinking: "Am I brave or am I just too dumb to quit?"
I didn't have an answer. But I started over anyway.

This time, something was different.

I stopped building what excited ME. 
I started solving what frustrated THEM.

A brand told me: "We spend 6 weeks and €500K on product images nobody outside this building ever sees."
So we built a system that does it in 15 days. and 60% cheaper.

5 failures taught me 3 things:
• Fall in love with the problem. Never the idea.
• If you can't sell it before you build it, don't build it.
• Being busy and making progress are two completely different things.

The gap between a minijob and a Fortune 500 boardroom isn't talent.

It's getting up one more time than you fell.
If you're on failure number 2 or 3 right now, keep going.

Your story isn't over. 
You're just in the ugly middle chapter.

Connecting data, technology, and creative systems | Building vertical AI

Last month I went to a female founder dinner. A woman who used to build in tech looked at me and said:

"I quit. I'm done fighting this system." It hurts me so much to hear that people quit dreams because of that. 

Cause it's not one meeting where they look past you to the man next to you. 
It's 100 meetings.
It's not one person assuming your male co-founder does the real work. 
It's most of them. 
It's not one guy deciding "I'll do the talking part because understand their tech needs better." 

It's years of assuming you're the support act in your own company. lol

I don't want to see the same founding stories recycled by guys who started with warm intros and golf buddies. 

I'm done working 5x harder to get the same chances men get handed.

The fight doesn't have a finish line. 
Ah and yes it IS a fight. And no, not against men. 
But against a system that still doesn't understand that we are here. 

Some days you're exhausted before the morning starts. 
Some days you think maybe she was right. Maybe quitting is the safe choice.
But the more I talk about this publicly, the more I realize, i want to help changing it. 

For every person that quit.

For every fucking little girl wanting to build the next Google. 

The system doesn't change because we leave(even if its ok to do so if you want to). 
It changes because we stay and refuse to shut up about it.

To every woman reading this who's tired of the fight: 
You're not crazy. 
The game is rigged. 
Play anyway.



Where are the tech divers and female founders? I want to see you, hear you and connect with you. What are you currently building? I believe in you!

I would rather see 1000 women who don't like me win than 10 more men take another seat.
 
They gave us one seat at the table. 
So we compete instead of collaborating. 
We doubt each other before we doubt the system.
 
And it worked.
 
I've been in rooms where I was the only woman more times than I can count. And the hardest moments weren't the men who underestimated me, it was the women I hoped would have my back and didn't.
 
That used to break me. 
It doesn't anymore. 
Cause it was never personal. 
It was the system working exactly as designed.
 
The women who didn't believe in me never stopped me from believing in them.
 
Not because I'm endlessly forgiving. 
Because I refuse to let a broken system turn me into someone who tears other women down if I like them. 

Why the fuck should I? 
 
So yes: I'm rooting for the woman who ghosted me. 
For the woman who doubted me. 
For the woman who never gave me a chance.
 
You're fighting in a system that was never built for either of us.
 
Let's fucking change it.

Tag a woman you're rooting for. She probably has no idea. 
I tag rei ‎ even though she didnt ghosted me haha

𝟲 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿:

1. Stop comparing your Chapter 1 to someone else's Chapter 20.
   
2. The "overnight success" you're jealous of took seven years.
   
3. Say no more than you say yes. Especially in Year 1.
   
4. Every "no" is just information. Collect enough of it and you'll find the "yes."
   
5. The hardest conversation you need to have is usually the most important one.
   
6. You'll say "this is the hardest thing I've ever done" at least ten times. And you'll mean it every time.


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