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title: Our team’s story | True Doors
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# Our Team’s Story

We are a private, independent, and profitable social enterprise that has taken no outside funding to date. True Doors is a Lifelong Inspiration company. We didn't invent doors. We just decided that they matter.

![lifelong-inspiration-team-rahzeb-choudhury](https://www.truedoors.com/hs-fs/hubfs/lifelong-inspiration-team-rahzeb-choudhury.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=lifelong-inspiration-team-rahzeb-choudhury.jpg "lifelong-inspiration-team-rahzeb-choudhury")

## Rahzeb Choudhury

Executive Director

I am the founder of [Lifelong Inspiration](https://lifelonginspiration.net/), of which True Doors is an ongoing initiative. In 2014 we began working on what seemed to be a one off social project. One thing has led to another and now I find myself as a member of a growing international team and projects completed in fifteen countries and counting.

I take overall responsibility for our service, with a focus on growing our international presence.

There are two doors where I’ve most felt at home. The first is the front door of my parents house where I grew up in London and second is the front door where my children are growing up in Amsterdam.

![Marieke van Diepen](https://www.truedoors.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Marieke%20van%20Diepen.jpg?width=300&height=285&name=Marieke%20van%20Diepen.jpg "Marieke van Diepen")

## Marieke van Diepen

Creative Director

I’ve been working alone and with a multidisciplinary team to explore the subject of ‘feeling at home’ through my artwork for many years now. My vision of the product True Doors, then called Opplakdeuren (Stick-on-Doors), was born during my final project at art academy in 2007.

We founded True Doors in 2014 when, as a team, we realised the importance of focusing on improving the lives of people with dementia and other vulnerable people.

I am responsible for our collection, production and relationships in the Netherlands and Belgium.

![Karl Vassallo](https://www.truedoors.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Karl%20Vassallo.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=Karl%20Vassallo.jpg "Karl Vassallo")

## Karl Vassallo

Operations Director

My focus is ensuring we run a highly efficient operation that's also great to work at and with.

In the last 10 years I've owned and run a slow cooking restaurant in my native Malta, as well as worked in numerous digital consultancy roles in the Netherlands and Switzerland.

![Vinod](https://www.truedoors.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Vinod.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=Vinod.jpg "Vinod")

## Vinod Sudharshan

Technology Director

To grow we need technology that's scaleable, reliable and fun to use. That's where I come in. I was fortunate enough to be involved in community service for 7 years in my youth through Rotary International. Developing IT solutions is my passion and it's what I've been doing since 2010. I'm thrilled that through True Doors I can do what I do best, which is IT, while getting involved again in work that benefits society.