Zachary Berk is the Co-chair of the Mideast Peace Project. Professionally he is the Managing Director and co-founder of KBL Healthcare Ventures. KBL is a venture capital fund focused on the healthcare industry. Zachary Berk has been in the healthcare industry for over 30 years; sixteen years as an optometrist and 16 years doing healthcare venture capital.

Zachary has been involved in the peace movement since 1967, when he started Open Arts in Madison, Wisconsin. There he was working on developing a holistic approach to peace making. In 1978, Zachary was president and founder of the Peace Project for six years and it was also located in Madison. The purpose of the old Peace Project was to get people to take responsibility for creating world peace while simultaneously working on creating peace in their own lives.

Zachary took a hiatus from social activism until the beginning of 2002, when he felt compelled to initiate a Middle East grass roots peace movement. He felt that the governments of the United States, Israel and Palestine could benefit from an organization that represented both Arab and Jewish Americans.

George Gorayeb is a Co-founder of the Mideast Peace Project. Born and raised in New Jersey, he has lived and worked extensively in the Mideast.†He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco and Associate Peace Corps Director in Yemen. He has also lived in Lebanon, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and visited most of the Arab nations.

He has formerly served as Board Chairman of the National Association of Arab Americans headquartered in Washington, DC. He currently serves on the board of directors of two Arab American organizations as well as the boards of Leadership Anne Arundel and his County Cultural Arts Foundation.

He has owned his own business for several years and is currently a Sales Manager for a national Internet company. He resides with his wife and daughters near Annapolis, MD.