Roo Rogers
Founding & General Partner
INTERNAL / CULTURE
DOC V1.4 · APR 2026
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The Utopia Studio · Team & Culture
"A culture is not what you say in decks. It is what the team does on the day nobody is watching."
// 01 — THE TEAM
The lever, not the premise.
Founders, operators, investors, and builders behind the studio. Fellows are the premise — we are the lever that turns their scar tissue into systems that ship.
Alina Tuhina
Founding & Managing Partner
Ollie Graham-Yooll
Chief Product & Operations Officer
Karan Pinto
Chief Technology & Growth Officer
Konstantin Behr
Chief Strategy Officer
Shamona Maharaj
Chief Financial Officer
Aly El Shalakany
Venture Partner
JJ Erpaiboon
Head of Portfolio Value Creation
Koleen Ocampo
Head of Operations & Compliance
Ahmad Nazzal
Investment Principal
Steve Prawiromaruto
Senior Investment Associate
Alex San
Associate
// 02 — THE PRACTICE
Nine principles. One loop.
Hover an entry to read it. The dial turns each time you take a measurement.
01 / 09
We co-build with domain experts. Not around them.
Fellows are the premise. We are the lever. A decade of scar tissue in a real industry beats six months of framework fluency. Our job is to translate that scar tissue into product logic and working systems.
- We respect the industries our fellows come from before we try to change them.
- We start every build cycle with their reality, not our templates.
- We tell the truth fast. Our word is our bond. What we commit to, we ship.
// 03 — THE BAR
We intend to be the best company builder in the world.
Not the best in Doha. Not the best in the Gulf. The best, measured against anyone, anywhere. That is the bar. We are here to close the distance, and we plan to prove it.