Aral Sürmeli
Position: CEO & Founder
Aral graduated from the Acıbadem University School of Medicine as an MD and from Harvard University T. H. Chan School of Public Health as an MPH. He is the cofounder and president of Medical Rescue Association of Turkey (MEDAK) since 2013. He primarily works on medical rescue, disaster response and healthcare of migratory populations.
Neeru Narla, MD, MPH
Position: Chief Medical Officer
Neeru earned her MD from Mayo Clinic, and completed her pediatrics residency and MPH at Harvard, where she is currently faculty. She has collaborated extensively with international partners in Africa and Asia on maternal, infant, and adolescent health, to deliver context-specific interventions with locally driven solutions, and supplemented her medical training with a fellowship in global health delivery. Her work focuses on promoting health equity and innovative preventive services primarily for children and families in resource-denied settings.
Kristyn Anderson
Position: Chief Operating Officer
Kristyn is an associate vice president and the chief of staff of Rasky Partners. In this capacity, she supports both the Boston and DC offices by coordinating the execution of strategic initiatives for the firm and day-to-day activities.
Kristyn holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management with a concentration in Finance from Boston University. She is the chairwoman of the Young Professionals Board of First Literacy, a non-profit benefiting adult and immigration literacy programs throughout Massachusetts.
Su Yuen Chin
Position: Chief Technology Officer
Su Yuen is an entrepreneur with a passion for democratizing access to opportunities with remote work. Her current startup MomoCentral.com, is an on-demand tech talent platform of human-interviewed, tested and verified developers and designers.
Currently the platform has 450+ talents with 1000+ companies hiring, including YCombinator to Series C startups and Fortune 500 companies including Deloitte and Standard Chartered Bank.
In her free time, she enjoys finding ways to give back to the community with tech. In March 2016, she created the MomoGivesBack program at MomoCentral - in partnership with Fast Forward - the top US tech non-profit accelerator. Talents on MomoCentral.com have donated thousands of hours to selected non-profits from YCombinator, Google.org and Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative with their tech skills. In June 2019, she was selected for the highly competitive MIT DeepTech Program in Cambridge, Boston.
Muath Khatib
Position: Software Developer
Muath Al-Khatib Software Engineer, a graduate of Al-Aqsa University with a bachelor's in Teaching Technology and a graduate of Code Academy Bootcamp in Gaza SkyGeeks, working with HERA on building features and improvements using JavaScript and Python technologies.
Sena Gizem Demir
Position: Program Manager
Sena Gizem Demir is our Program Manager based in Turkey. After getting her bachelor's in Sociology, she has been working in nonprofit organizations on women's rights, youth and animal rights and search and rescue. She is currently finishing her master's in Sociology.