GDS, which stands for German Digital School, intends to offer a wide range of services to serve different target groups and to be unique out there with the highest level of professionalism and competence.

The vision of the founder and Managing Director of GDS, Mr. El Arif Fouad, who was born on the 4th of November 1981 and grew up until the age of 19 in a city called Tinghir in the southeastern part of Morocco, then moved to Germany in May 2001 after graduating from high school. In fact, he understood from the beginning that the key to success was to learn the German language first. Indeed, after completing his C1 level in German, he attended a professional vocational training at SDI Munich and managed to successfully acquire a professional qualification as a state-certified foreign language correspondent specialized in economics. This training opened the door to a wide range of opportunities for a perfect start in professional careers in a globalized world. In fact, he joined two international operating companies and was in charge of both German and multinational customers, taking care of the entire ordering process, invoicing and dispatching goods worldwide. In an attempt to strengthen his hard and soft skills, he enrolled at the Bavarian Academy for Foreign Trade and graduated in International Business Administration. In addition, he obtained his Bachelor Professional of Marketing (CCI). From 2004 to 2024, he held several management positions such as Sales Director for Europe, Middle East, Africa and South Asia in medium-sized family-owned German companies. Due to his well-known excellent language skills in German, English, French, Arabic and Tamazight and his profound knowledge in international business, he was able to position himself as a professional consultant in sales, marketing and foreign languages.

Accordingly, he came up with his vision to set up German Digital School (GDS) to help both companies (B2B), as well as private customers (B2C) achieve their individual targets.

As a Sales and Marketing Consultant he believes that it is crucial to stand behind own products in order to be successful on a long term. Since the language was the first door-opener to his international career he decided to list the same as the first product to market, followed by the level of professionalism in managing those various international sales territories along with the competence to understand the intercultural key-factors.