Fouad Akkad

Over 18 years I've led product and design across government platforms, media organizations, and cultural institutions. Today I build AI-native products — tools that solve real problems, not demos dressed up as startups. Every product starts with one question: does this need to exist? If yes, I make it excellent. If no, I move on.

Under the name Etherest, I produce electronic music — deep, textured, cinematic. What began as a creative outlet became a second discipline: sound design, mixing, mastering, and eventually building the audio tools I wished existed. Music taught me to trust my ears, iterate relentlessly, and ship things that feel right — not just function correctly.