The team

People you can trust
on the ground in the UAE.

MENA Access is built on relationships, not transactions. Meet the cofounders standing behind every introduction we make.

Lyritia van der Linde — Cofounder and Partner, MENA Access
Cofounder & Partner

Lyritia van der Linde

For over eight years, former CEO and board member of a leading UAE business council — building one of the most influential international professional communities in the country.

Lyritia has guided businesses from start-up to scale and supported families through every stage of settling into the UAE. She combines deep community ties with practical, hands-on experience — the kind of insight you only earn by walking the path yourself.

Her network spans every sector that matters to clients arriving from abroad: education, business, government, hospitality, and the lifestyle communities that turn a new city into a home.

  • 8+ years business council leadership
  • Hundreds of businesses guided
  • Multilingual — fully fluent in both worlds
Quintin Wessels — Cofounder and Partner, MENA Access
Cofounder & Partner

Quintin Wessels

A seasoned entrepreneur with a track record across F&B and oil & gas. Quintin has built, run, and scaled real businesses across multiple sectors over many years.

He brings decades of operational experience, a wide commercial network, and the instinct for spotting opportunity that only comes from doing the work — not theorising about it. When clients want to know whether a deal is real, a partner is credible, or a market has room, Quintin is the one they want in the room.

His perspective is essential to the Remote Intelligence pillar — the difference between research that sounds clever on paper and intelligence that protects your money.

  • F&B operator and owner
  • Oil & gas business experience
  • Decades of network depth
How we work

The way we run
MENA Access.

01

We pick up the phone

You will speak to a partner — not an account manager, not a chatbot. Every MENA Access client has a direct line to one of us.

02

We say no when we should

If a service isn't right for you, or a partner isn't who they claim to be, you'll hear it from us first. Trust depends on it.

03

We share what we know

Our network is your network. Once you become a client, the doors we open stay open — long after the work is done.

Want to talk to one of us directly?

That's how every relationship at MENA Access begins.

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