Christiana
Maxion
Matchmaker to the world’s 1%
The most publicly recognised voice in modern dating.
I am building the future of how people meet, match, and stay together, across every income bracket, every city, and every stage of the relationship cycle.
A native New Yorker rewriting the blueprint of modern dating.
I was born in Dunedin, Florida, only because my father was playing for the New York Mets at the time. My parents are both NYC born and bred, high school sweethearts who met at fourteen and sixteen, two years apart to the day. They were married on their shared birthday. April 18th has been a sacred date in my family for nearly thirty-five years, and their love story is the one I have measured every other against.
I grew up in Westchester County, spent most of my teenage weekends getting into trouble in Manhattan, and somehow still managed to graduate as a straight-A student and Division I athlete.
I went on to the University of Notre Dame for a degree in finance, then pivoted, surprising no one who knew me, into a Masters in Education, because coaching springboard diving had quietly become the thing I loved most. I taught first grade and kindergarten at Icahn Charter School 1 in the South Bronx for four years.
Then I met a guy who would bring me to the UAE. We split not long after I arrived, but the move stuck. In the UAE, you are promoted on merit rather than longevity.
Within a few years, I had become a national teacher trainer, a school leader, and a published author, all before the age of twenty–nine.
Then came Dubai.
In 2019 I made Dubai my home. It is, I genuinely believe, the most exciting city in the world. Over two hundred nationalities live here. You can date the entire map.
As a Puerto Rican–Filipino–Turkish American, I felt like I had finally arrived somewhere that mirrored the world I had grown up in.
The agency. The network. The category.
In 2020, I started an Instagram account documenting the realities of dating as a Western expat in lockdown-era Dubai. The voice that built that audience is the voice that has carried every business I have built since: date with high standards and zero expectations.
What I learned from that account was that people really disliked dating in Dubai. They identified the problem, so I created the solution.
I founded my matchmaking agency on a single principle: elite dating in this region deserved a curated, discreet, and intentional alternative to what existed.
Within six months, I was across regional and international press. Within eight, Erica Arrechea and Annie Garmendia of CINQE Matchmaking invited me to join their team.
Today, we are the largest global matchmaking network in the world, and I am one of the most publicly recognised matchmakers in the industry — across 350+ media mention, author, and a body of writing that has shaped how this region talks about love.
I did not enter the matchmaking industry. I helped redefine what it could be.
And then came MAXION.
In 2024, I launched MAXION, and in 2026, we are relaunching in Dubai with a first-of-its-kind dating marketplace built for the millions of expats who, like me, did not move halfway across the world to feel lonely.
The mission has not changed.
Whether it is one client at a $200,000 matchmaking membership, or one MAXION member walking into their first date in Dubai, the work is the same. End expat loneliness. Rewrite the blueprint of modern dating. Help people find each other in every city in the world.
I am still that New Yorker who walked into the UAE with two suitcases and an open heart. I just happen to run the largest matchmaking network in the world now, host a tv series, write books, and build a tech platform alongside it.
If you are here, you probably already know what you are looking for. Choose the path that best suits you.
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