Natasha Allen

Natasha has recognized expertise in developing training programs for solar education and a strong technical background that she has employed in improved cookstoves M&E with Potential Energy and servicing and maintenance strategy with We Care Solar. Natasha was awarded the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for her research in best practices for building capacity and ensuring sustainability in energy access interventions. She holds a BSc in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and is completing a MSc in Engineering for International Development at University College London.

Todd Allmendinger

Andrew Benedek

Dr. Andrew Benedek received his engineering degree (chemical) from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1966. By 1970, Dr. Benedek obtained a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., with a focus on wastewater treatment. He then accepted a professorship at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where he taught and conducted research to find ways of improving water quality.

In 1980, Dr. Benedek founded ZENON Environmental Inc., with the purpose of developing cost effective membrane technologies for recycling wastewater. Under his leadership, ZENON has invented many of the key membrane technologies used for water and wastewater treatment and became the global leader in this field. Dr. Benedek continued to be the chairman and CEO of ZENON until its June 2006 sale to General Electric. At the time of the sale, the company had annual sales of approximately CDN $250 Million and employed 1,500 people.

After the sale of the company, Dr Benedek worked at the Scripps Institute of Technology in San Diego where he became interested in helping to find solutions to the Global Climate Change problem. In view of this new interest, he left Scripps to develop renewable energy from waste. In 2008, he became the Managing Director of UTS BiogasTechnik GMBH, a German pioneer in biogas generation from waste. Once the Germany company had a strong local leadership, he returned to the US to develop the North American operations and the global research and development of the company under the Anaergia name.

Currently he is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Anaergia Inc., the parent company of a group of companies, including the various UTS entities worldwide, dedicated to products and services dedicated to converting wastewater solids and other organic wastes to energy, fertilizer and pure water.

Dr Benedek has received many awards. These include honorary doctorates from Universities, awards for entrepreneurship and for contributions toward solving global problems. For example, in 2008, he was chosen as the inaugural recipient of one of the most prestigious prizes in the world for contributions to solving water problems, the Lee Kwan Yew Prize.

Dr. Benedek served on many public boards such as the National Research
Council of Canada and IWA. Noted as a leading authority on global water related issues, he has written over 100 scientific papers on different water and wastewater treatment technologies and lectured extensively as a keynote speaker to learned societies around the world.

Saurav Bhattacharyya

Saurav Bhattacharyya (Saurav) is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Quantum Inventions, a company focusing on Mobility Intelligence. He has served ITS Singapore in various capacities ranging from Secretary to Vice President since 2007.

Saurav is a keen proponent of standards and has been an international editor and co-editor for numerous technical standard documents both nationally and internationally.

Monika Bieri

Ms. Monika Bieri got her bachelor degree of economics in 1999 at the University of Applied Science in Business Administration in Zurich, Switzerland and finished the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams in 2003. She has a 14 years back-ground as a financial analyst with UBS AG, Zurich. During 2004-2013 she was responsible for covering the European power sector within the fixed income team at UBS Global Asset Management. This enabled her getting a wide experience in providing investment recommendations to portfolio managers for water, gas and electricity companies. In order to enhance her finance knowledge with renewable energies in more detail, Monika completed the executive programme ‘Diploma of Advanced Studies in Renewable Energy Management (REM-HSG)’ at the University of St. Gallen in March-2013. She joined the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) in January 2014 as a research associate within the Solar Energy System cluster to enhance the team with her utility and finance background. After four years widening her horizon with work experience in solar R&D, she now puts her knowledge at work into real-life projects at Cleantech Solar as a senior financial analyst. Her expertise is in economic viability assessments of renewable energy applications and fundamental power market analysis including future power price scenario modelling.

Grégory Blokkeel

Wayne Byrne

Antonio Castellano

With deep expertise in the energy sector, Antonio supports utilities and governments to define and implement bold long-term strategies for improved performance and sustainability. He has advised governments in developing national energy strategies, helped utilities reconfigure their operations to achieve efficiency and unlock growth, and shaped alternative-energy strategies for clients around the world. Before moving to Southeast Asia, Antonio worked in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

Examples of Antonio’s recent client work include the following:

• developing a 10-year strategy for a Southeast Asian utility company, including its core-operations strategy and domestic and international growth plans
• designing and executing an operations-improvement program for a leading global utility, including the design of a new organization and the development of a roadmap to achieve best-practice performance across multiple divisions and regions
• supporting a national regulator in increasing the competitiveness and attractiveness of a local electricity sector
• supporting the ministry of energy of a Southeast Asian country to develop a 20-year national energy strategy plan covering electricity, oil and gas, renewables, and energy efficiency
• shaping an alternative-energy strategy (covering nuclear and renewables) for a Middle East government agency, including setting aspirations, identifying energy-mix targets, selecting technologies, and assessing the impact on localization

Antonio is the coauthor of several reports on the future of the energy sector in developing regions. He is passionate about capacity building and formed part of the leadership team at Studio ergo Lavoro, a national initiative to improve the transition from school to the workplace in Italy.

Karthik Chandrasekar

Karthik started Sangam to find a new model to provide early stage support for climate change pioneers. He spends a lot of his time with the portfolio & within the clean technology eco-system in India & globally.

Sau Sheong Chang

Sau Sheong leads a team of software engineers, architects, data scientists and user experience designers in SPGroup. His team builds new digital products for a spectrum of internal and external users including residential, commercial, partners as well as the public at large.

In his 23 years of industry experience, he has lead similar engineering teams at PayPal, Yahoo and HP in building software products. He was previously a co-founder in a software company and was involved in startups for more than 10 years.

Sau Sheong runs the GopherCon Singapore, the largest community-led Go programming language conference in Southeast Asia. He is also active and contributes to many other technology communities in Singapore and Southeast Asia. He has written 4 programming and technology-related books.

Sau Sheong has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, a Masters in Commercial Law and is a certified arbitrator in Singapore.

Narsingh Chaudhary

Mr. Narsingh Chaudhary is Senior Vice President with Siemens, Singapore and responsible for Strategy & Business Excellence for South East Asia.

Narsingh’s current responsibility also includes championing Sustainability efforts for Siemens South East Asia operations, a topic close to his heart.

Prior to his current role he was heading the Global EHouse & Module Business Segment for Oil & Gas bringing Singapore on the Global Map for “Plug & Play” Modularized Power Solutions.

Narsingh is also the President of the Mindsphere World Association (ASEAN), a body working on Industrial IoT Platform for Industries.

An Active speaker on various technology topics, Narsingh works with start-ups in helping them professionally to scale their operations.

Narsingh is an Electrical Engineer with more than 25yrs of International Business Experience with Siemens handling diverse roles in General Management, Strategy, Sales, Projects & Bid Management and Sustainability.

He’s based in Singapore for more than 10yrs

Cecilia Chow

Ms Cecilia Chow is a co-founder and Deputy CEO at ZWEEC Analytics. She has spent over 10 years in business development and organizational planning and currently oversees various aspects of the company’s corporate and business functions. Previously from A*STAR, she has helped to establish strategic research and business collaborations with the industry and academia through contract negotiation, commercialization of technology, IPR protection and building collaborative relationships among the local and international partners. She was a key member of the team that saw through a homegrown research technology internationally commercialized and receiving numerous awards both globally and locally. Ms Chow has worked in both private and government sectors, holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Loughborough University, U.K. and has attended INSEAD executive programmes.

Dalson Chung

Mr Chung Dalson is currently the Director (Industry Development and Promotion) with the National Environment Agency (NEA). NEA, one of the two Statutory Boards of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR), is the public organization responsible for improving and sustaining a clean and green environment in Singapore.

NEA develops the environmental industry in Singapore to meet local needs and for meeting global opportunities, especially in the waste management and the cleaning industry sectors. To this end, Mr Dalson Chung spearheaded the establishment of the CleanEnviro Summit Singapore (held in conjunction with the World Cities Summit and the Singapore International Water Week) as an international knowledge and business exchange platform for the environmental sector.

Mr Chung was educated in Singapore and Germany. He obtained his bachelor degree in Structural Engineering from Essen University in Germany under the Singapore Government’s scholarship.  He later obtained his Masters degrees in Civil Engineering and Business Administration from the National University of Singapore under the Singapore Government’s scholarship for post-graduate study.

After graduating from Germany, Mr Chung joined the then Ministry of the Environment (ENV) in 1984 and has since held various appointments in ENV, NEA and MEWR.  He started his career in ENV as an Engineer in the Sewerage Department and Drainage Department before becoming a Senior Engineer with the International Environment and Policy Department.  He was later promoted to Chief Engineer (Waste Minimisation) of the Resource Conservation Department in NEA. He was also Head (Operations) of NEA’s Environmental Health Department from 2004 to 2006 before being seconded to MEWR as its Director, 3P Partnership Division from 2006 to 2009.

Mr Chung is a Board Director, Member of the Executive Committee and Member of the Singapore Green Labelling Steering Committee of the Singapore Environment Council.    He is also the Deputy Chairman of Environment and Resources Standards Committee of the Enterprise Singapore and a member of its Standard Council.  He is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) and chairs IES’ Environment Engineering Technical Committee.  He is a Chartered Engineer (Environment and Water) and a member of the IES’ Chartered Engineer Board and the Engineering Accreditation Board.

Fook Hoong Choo

Prof Choo Fook Hoong obtained his BSc from the The University of Leeds, UK in 1977 and MSc (Power Electronics and Systems Engineering) from Manchester University (UMIST), UK in 1979. He worked with GEC Electrical Projects, Rugby, UK as a design engineer and project engineer with Lucas Control at Lucas Research Centre, Birmingham, UK from 1979 to 1984. He joined Nanyang Technological University (formerly NTI) as a Lecturer in 1984 and retired as an Associate Professor in 2012. He is currently the Co-Director of ERI@N, NTU

Research Interests

His research interests span over the following areas: Energy Management, Data Analytics and MVAC Systems, LDAC Air-conditioning System, Power Electronics and Drives, EVS and Electromobility, Smart Grids – Hybrid dc/ac Grids and Renewable Energy Systems (Solar PV and Thermal). He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Certified Energy Manager (CEM) from IET, UK and AEE, USA respectively. He is an active member of the Technical Committee for Lamps and Related Equipment, Spring Singapore. ​​

Helge Daebel

An Environmental Engineer by training, Helge leads the water practice at Emerald Technology Ventures, a globally recognized Climate Tech investor with offices in Zurich, Toronto, Singapore and a 25-year investment history. Part of this history has been a unique traction in the water space including successful exits to major industry players (SUEZ, XYLEM and BASF). In 2020, Emerald closed a dedicated global water fund, a USD 100M in size with commitments from Temasek, SKion Water, Ecolab and Microsoft.

Jérôme David

Jérôme is a Founder and Managing Partner of Treis, a family investment group focused on responsible and sustainable investment. Treis’ activities range from diversified multi-asset classes investments to direct investments with a long-term approach, both in growth capital and impact ventures.

Treis believes that long term economic performance can be achieved whilst pursuing a positive social and environmental impact. Founded in Europe in 2008, Treis expended into Asia, opening an office in Singapore in 2014.

Portfolio companies in Growth capital, where Treis plays an active role, encompass renewable power producers in Europe, a biological crop input company and a fashion brand using recycled plastics.

Treis’ impact ventures portfolio includes pioneering waste-to energy and waste-to-protein ventures in Africa, a pineapple leaf fibre textile venture, as well as sustainable fish-farms and Pay-as-you-go Solar in South East Asia.

Jocelyn Doucet

Jocelyn Doucet holds a Chemical Engineering Degree and Ph. D. from Ecole Polytechnique (Montreal, 2004 and 2008) where he is also adjunct professor since 2011.

While completing his Ph. D., he founded Kengtek Engineering, a company specialized in process engineering with a strong emphasize on developing and executing the research and development needed to properly scale-up processes to the industrial and commercial level. This is where he developed more than 20 industrial processes and patents for worldwide clients. His entrepreneurial and engineering skills have made him grow the company every year in various sectors by partnering with larger engineering firms and research centres and by successfully solving complex problems in very innovative ways. As a result of his leadership and dedication to work, he was recognized as one of the greatest young entrepreneur in Canada as 2013 finalist of the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award. He also received the Rogers New Technology award for Pyrowave in 2013 and won the local and regional prizes for the most promising young entrepreneur in Science and Technology and Sustainable Energy.

Thomas Esser

Thomas Esser is since 20 years creating and implementing product and technology innovations in cleantech, utility, and automotive industries.

He joined Siqens in October 2015, initially as a Product Manager and since April 2017 as Director Investor Relations & Partnering.

Siqens is replacing off-grid diesel/gasoline generators with battery charger powered by a patented methanol fuel cell that eliminates noise, emissions, and 70% fuel cost. The also make commercial EVs independent from charging infrastructure using the global # future fuel.

Since 2012 Thomas supports international corporations and SME as  a business advisor and management consultant. He is  specialized in energy and cleantech industry business development, go to market strategies and product innovation.

His experience in fuel cells and hybrid energy systems dates back to 1997: From 1997 to 2002 he co-invented 7 patents on automotive fuel cell power trains at a Mercedes/Ballard Joint Venture.

With RWE, the largest German utility, he worked from 2002 on residential fuel cells and virtual power plants for smart grids.

From 2005 – 2012 Thomas joined P21/Heliocentris AG, a fuel cell and energy efficiency start-up specialized in telecommunication industry. s a product manager, he initiated a hybrid energy efficiency product line, that the R&D team developed within 18 months and generated more than 70 % of group revenue for several years.

In October 2015 Thomas joined Siqens, an innovation leader in High-Temperature-PEM Methanol fuel cells from Munich, Germany. At Siqens he is now Director Investor Relations & Partnering.

Eliza Foo

Eliza Foo is the Director, Sustainability of Temasek International Pte Ltd.  Temasek is an investment company, headquartered in Singapore with a net portfolio value of S$308 billion, focused primarily in Asia. Temasek is a generational investor, seeking to make a difference always with tomorrow in mind.

Temasek’s sustainability strategy has three main pillars being Policies, Sustainability Investing & Financing and Capability Building.  Eliza currently leads the team under the Sustainability Investing & Financing pillar to pursue investment opportunities in sustainability-related businesses.

Eliza has fifteen years of experience as a private equity and investment banking professional with firms including Armstrong Asset Management, Carlyle Asia Partners, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs across various sectors and focusing in Asia. Her passion, for the past seven years, has been in sustainability investing and how to shape a better and more sustainable tomorrow for our current and future generations.

Eliza received her Master of Applied Finance from the University of Melbourne and Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University.

Paul Fox

Paul Fox is an investor, strategist, business builder, and technologist. He is a co-founder of both Evie Networks and Blockchain Pacific and an advisor to the Enosi blockchain project. He has held technology investment roles at Corran Toohill, AGL Energy, Southern Cross Ventures, the California Clean Energy Fund and Flex. He was instrumental in creating AGL Energy Limited’s New Energy subsidiary, delivering products including zero-down solar, home batteries, smart air conditioners, virtual power plants, EV charging and blockchain enabled P2P trading. Now based in Sydney Australia he spent 14 years in Silicon Valley including as CEO of a smart grid company, a VP at Flex, and the CEO of a fuel cell company.

Mark Freed

Matthew Friedman

Matthew Friedman is Chief Digital Officer of Sembcorp Industries. His focus is on driving business growth by: converting traditional business operations and processes into digital ones through the use of technology and data, evaluate opportunities for monetizing data, maximizing innovation through technology and technology investments, and ensuring a secure Sembcorp technical and digital environment. His scope includes: Information Technology, R&D and Innovation, Data Sciences, Cyber Security and Business Process Engineering.

Mr. Friedman has worked in the technology industry for over two decades; the prior 16 years with IBM. In his last job at IBM he was the responsible for leading a team of over 500 people and delivered $5B+ annual revenue helping leading global and regional technology companies digitize their service delivery and solution platforms. Prior to IBM, he helped cofound a successful management consulting firm which got acquired and grew into MarchFirst, one of the first and largest web integrators in the late 1990’s

Mr. Friedman graduated with honours from Skidmore College in the United States and has completed executive education at Harvard Business School.

Matt has lived in Singapore for over six years and has also lived and worked for several years in Shanghai.

Stéphane Germain

Stéphane Germain founded GHGSat in 2011 to answer a market need for consistent, high quality measurements of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities worldwide.

Mr. Germain has over 25 years of experience in aerospace engineering, project management, and business development. He has held senior management positions over a period of 10 years in both small and large Canadian aerospace companies. Prior to these positions, he was a consultant for several years with Bain & Company, a leading international strategy consulting firm, working for Fortune 500 companies in industries ranging from forestry to aerospace. At the start of his career, he worked as an engineer and project manager at Spar Aerospace.

Mr. Germain graduated from Queen’s University (Canada) with a B.Sc. (Engineering Physics) in 1991 and a Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD (France) in 1994.

Peter Godfrey

Peter is the chief representative of the prestigious UK Energy Institute (EI) here in Singapore. In addition to his work with the EI, Peter provides customised executive advisory services through his own company Merlenergy Pte ltd. He has gained an international reputation as a leading independent energy strategy and business development consultant with an executive-level international client-base that has included the world’s leading national and international energy and mineral resource companies as well as a number of governments and regulatory agencies.

Most of Peter’s career has been spent in the Oil and Gas industry, mainly with BP. Here in Singapore, Peter was Head of Oil & Gas in Standard Chartered Bank’s principal finance team and prior to that, he was a member of Arrow Energy’s executive leadership team responsible for building Arrow’s international coal- bed methane business, based on the company’s successful development of CBM reserves in Queensland, Australia.

His interests have now extended into renewable and alternative energy development and addressing issues related to industry transition towards a lower carbon, greener and cleaner energy future. Within this context, Peter has majored on promoting the relevance of “The Circular Economy” as a framework for the future development of energy systems world-wide.

Chee Kiong Goh

Goh Chee Kiong joined SP Group in November 2017 as the Head for Strategic Development, responsible for open innovation and developing new energy solutions in SP. The coverage includes renewables, storage, microgrids, energy management and electric mobility.

Prior to SP, Chee Kiong served in the public service with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) for two decades, during which he led the development of the cleantech, urban solutions and infrastructure sectors in Singapore. His last role in EDB was the Executive Director for Cleantech, Cities, Infrastructure and Industrial Solutions.

He was responsible for conceptualising and implementing several landmark cleantech related initiatives in Singapore, such as the growth of the water industry as a national focus area, the SolarNova programme which aggregates solar demand across government agencies, the floating PV pilot as well as the EV car sharing programme.

Robert Gorkin

Rob Gorkin received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California in 2010 and is currently completing an MBA. His background includes experience at a number of world class institutes. He is also the recipient of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant for his work in developing a new hydrogel material for use in condoms.

Sebastian Groh

Dr. Groh is a 2013 Stanford Ignite Fellow from Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA) and holds a PhD from Aalborg University (Denmark) and the Postgraduate School Microenergy Systems at the Technische Universität Berlin where he wrote his thesis on the role of energy in development processes, energy poverty and technical innovations. He published a book and multiple journal articles on the topic of decentralized electrification in the Global South. Since 2014, Dr. Groh has been working as the CEO and co-founder of SOLshare Ltd. and is an assistant professor in the Business School of North South University in Dhaka (Bangladesh). On behalf of SOLshare, he received the Intersolar Award for Outstanding Solar Businesses, the UN Momentum for Change Award, both in 2016, as well the 2017 Start-Up Energy Transition Award by the German Energy Agency (DENA) and the 2017 UN DESA Powering the Future We Want USD 1M Energy Grant, along with Grameen Shakti from Bangladesh. In 2018, SOLshare has recently been accepted into the Technical Pioneers program of the World Economic Forum, an annual list of the most innovative companies in the world whose technologies are world changing. Dr. Groh was further selected into the SE100 2017, a list of the top 100 Social Enablers around the world and became an Ashoka Fellow in 2018.

SOLshare has created a revolutionary new approach to bring affordable solar electricity to everyone in Bangladesh and beyond through its peer-to-peer solar energy trading platforms based on distributed ledger technology. We believe the smart peer to peer grids we are building in Bangladesh can be the future for utilities globally. The social enterprise pioneers a micro-energy transition model 3.0 by interconnecting solar home systems in peer-to-peer networks, monetizing excess solar energy along the value chain in real time with mobile money and empowering communities to earn a direct income from the sun.

Carlalberto Guglielminotti

Carlalberto Guglielminotti is Chief Executive Officer of ENGIE EPS and, in October 2013, he was appointed CEO of Electro Power Systems (EPS),
with the mission to manage the Chapter 11 of what was, at that time, a research centre and spinoff of the Polytechnic University of Turin.

In May 2014, after spearheading the complex financial restructuring of the research centre in record time, Mr Guglielminotti decided to target the
energy markets by launching a start-up using the innovative technology which had been developed since 2005 and, until then, was deployed only in the telecommunications sector.

Less than one year later, in April 2015, he led the company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), listing EPS on the Paris Stock Exchange with a market
capitalisation of €55 million. Since then, the construction of the new EPS from scratch quickly transformed it into a real industrial and global
player.

Eight months later, in December 2015, he launched a capital increase and funded the acquisition of a spinoff of the Polytechnic University of Milan to complete the company’s technological portfolio.

Afterwards, EPS deployed an installed base of 67 MWh, becoming one of the largest players worldwide for microgrids and utility-scale storage
systems.

Two years later, in January 2018, ENGIE, the global energy leader operating in more than 70 countries and the world’s largest independent power
producer, took control of the company by acquiring a majority stake, and it launched a tender offer worth over 100% of the capital of EPS for an
enterprise value of €108 million.

In August 2018, following the capital increase of €30 million (160% oversubscribed), EPS market capitalization reached €150 million.

Prior to the EPS venture, Mr Guglielminotti was an entrepreneur and investor focused mainly on the high-tech and digital sectors, with strong expertise in start-ups, growing-stage companies and turnarounds.

In 2011, he was appointed Operating Partner at 360 Capital Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms in Europe, with responsibilities for the development of the clean-tech and digital portfolio companies. He later became chairman of the advisory company of the fund, a role he still maintains.

Before joining 360 Capital Partners, Mr Guglielminotti was a co-founder of Blackshape Aircraft. Acquired by an investment group that specialises in aerospace and electronics, the company develops and sells the highest-performing ultra-light aircraft in the world, completely made of carbon fibre.

He also co-founded Restopolis, now called TheFork, a TripAdvisor company and leading online restaurant reservation platform in Europe with almost 14 million monthly visits.

Mr Guglielminotti was born in Turin in 1983. He received an MBA with merit in financial risk management from the SDA Bocconi School of
Management in 2012. He graduated with a JD summa cum laude in international law from Université Paris V in 2005 and magna cum laude with a master’s degree in law from the University of Turin in 2006. In 2010, he became a qualified lawyer and was enrolled in the Milan bar.

He specialised in philosophy at the University of Haifa in Israel (2005) and at the European School of Economics in New York (2007). Afterwards, he spent four years at Linklaters between London and Milan, specialising in structured finance, with secondment in investment banking, at the Royal Bank of Scotland. In addition to his career, Mr Guglielminotti is a regular lecturer and visiting professor at leading European polytechnic universities and business schools. He enjoys trail running, skiing and mountaineering. However, his main passion is his family, which he “cofounded” with his wife, Claudia, and with two recent additions to the team in 2015 and 2016: Tommaso and Edoardo.

Piyush Gupta

The Lithion team is led by Piyush Gupta. Piyush graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 2000 and holds an MBA from INSEAD. Before starting Lithion Power, Piyush held senior global roles with TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL) and Axiata Group (KLSE: AXIATA).

Caroline Guyot

Caroline Guyot is the co-founder and Managing Director of the ENGIE Factory Asia-Pacific, an entity which builds and implements collaboration projects between startups and ENGIE. Before launching the factory, she developed innovation programs for ENGIE in areas relating to the energy transition and smart cities.

Prior to joining ENGIE, she worked at Ashoka, a global network of social entrepreneurs, where she led an accelerator and designed partnerships between social impact entrepreneurs and corporates. At Ashoka, her work spanned multiple geographies and sectors, including energy, education, health and social finance. She also launched the ChangemakerXChange community in Asia to support cross-country collaboration between young social impact entrepreneurs.

Previously, Caroline launched a media project in East Africa, worked for a think tank on African affairs and supported a microfinance consultant in South Africa.

Afnan Hannan

Afnan Hannan has a clear vision of energy access delivering opportunities to the 800M people across the globe without power. In 2016 he Co-founded Okra Solar. He has 7 years of experience in sustainable energy and holds degrees in Economics and Engineering, majoring in renewable energy systems. Afnan began his career in the energy efficiency and building automation industries. He has since won numerous awards on behalf of Okra, including the Techcrunch battlefield award and the Innovations Against Poverty grant. In 2018 and 2019 Afnan was an invited contributor at the World Economic Forum, showcasing Okras innovative method of achieving rapid last-mile electrification using IoT and automation of solar-powered “mesh-grids”.

Elodie Hecq

Elodie Hecq (Head of Sales / Singapore) graduated both from top French engineering school ENSE3 (Grenoble Institute of Technology) with a major in Energy & IT, and from top French business school GEM. Elodie acquired an expertise in IoT and Energy management systems through multiple assignments. She brings to our team a powerful cocktail of strong academic background, business innovation experience, and multicultural management abilities acquired by living many years abroad.

Jason Herbert

Jason Herbert is the Business Development Manager for Mint Innovation, a biotech company that has developed a world-first biometallurgy process that recovers precious metals from waste feedstocks – using microbes as precious metal scavenging sponges. Jason’s Master’s research drives the companies understanding of the global flow of precious metal-rich electronic waste, and how Mint, through its scalable technology, can recover value from electronic waste – preventing the loss of valuable metals to landfill or the illicit trade. Enhancing metal recovery with Mint’s biometallurgical process creates a sustainable metal supply at the local level – reducing the reliance on mining or a regions need to import similar metals that Mint can recover efficiently from waste feedstocks.

Kevin Houston

After successful sales, marketing and consulting careers with Procter & Gamble, Price Waterhouse Coopers and IBM, which included international assignments in Turkey and Germany, Kevin took up the cause of climate change in 2006. He returned to University of Edinburgh in 2008 to do postgraduate studies in Carbon Management where he carried out research on ICT and climate change including primary research on the use of virtual world technologies to dematerialise business travel emissions. On graduating he co-founded Carbon Masters. Since January 2010, Kevin has been advising the European Commission (EC) in Brussels as an independent expert, working with the ICT Industry to establish a common methodology for measuring the embedded energy and carbon in ICT goods networks and services. He currently represents the EC on the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Study group 5 and contributes to this groups work on establishing new ICT standards based on IS0 14040 and 14044. He is also a member of the Steering group of a joint initiative between the Carbon Trust and GeSi (Global e sustainability Initiative) which is developing ICT guidance to measure the carbon footprint of ICT goods networks and services based on the emerging WRI /WBSCD Scope 3 standards. Kevin is a native of London but now resides in Edinburgh.

Kuan Hsu

Kuan Hsu started his career with McKinsey & Co. in the US, then focused on supply chain management in the US and China while at Solectron, an Electronics Manufacturing Services provider. He obtained an MBA/MA joint degree from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and became an investment banker in the US with Goldman Sachs, executing M&A deals in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector.

Kuan subsequently moved to Singapore, executing private equity deals at Temasek Holdings prior to becoming a venture capitalist responsible for GREE Ventures’ Southeast Asian operations.

Marko Kärkkäinen

Co-Founder WasteTrade, global marketplace for recyclable materials. Head of Center of Excellence – Waste to Value, Singapore.He has three decades of experience in the circular economy, education, marketing, branding, sales, general management in Europe, Americas, China and South East Asia. Wide knowledge of environmental, food industry, healthcare, dynamic pricing and education. Strong and deep experience how to set up a and run companies successful in Europe, China and Asia Pacific.

Shuichiro Kawamura

Shuichiro Kawamura has extensive experience and network in the field of energy and environment industry in Japan. He founded EEI in 2006 as Japan’s pioneer in energy related VC investment.

Shuichiro started building his energy industry network as industry analyst at the Industrial Bank of Japan from ’96 to 2000. During this time he served as an advisor to the government at the regulatory committee in Ministry of International Trade and Industry overlooking the deregulation of the Energy industry, building close ties with the nation’s policy makers. From 2000-2003, Shuichiro continued to advise the energy and environment industry at Mizuho Securities Investment Bank Unit, engaging in Equity Offerings and M&A advisory services.

In 2003, Shuichiro started his first company, Industrial Decisions Inc, (IDI) which he founded and served as CEO for three years. IDI is Japan’s first energy and environment strategic consulting firm. IDI was born by Shuichiro meeting the founder of Strategic Decisions Group at Stanford (SRI spin-off). Within 1 year of partnering with SDG, Shuichiro had won over 20 projects with Japanese utility firms. By combining and leveraging his network in Japan and SDG’s decision analysis methodology, he successfully led the company to become Japan’s well known leader in this field.

Shuichiro graduated from Tokyo University Law ‘89 and Princeton MPA ’96.

Jane Kearns

Jane is a senior advisor with MaRS Cleantech. She is a recognized leader in sustainable innovation and has extensive experience growing companies at the intersection of business and sustainability. She co-founded, grew and profitably sold a full-service renewable energy company, Clean Energy Developments, and leverages over 20 years of experience in the environmental finance, cleantech and sustainability sectors to help build businesses that matter.

Throughout her career, she has advised entrepreneurs and executives on project and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and business development. She helped launch Columbia Business School’s first environmental finance course, which continues to be taught in the school’s MBA and EMBA programs, as well the School of International and Public Affairs. Jane is the co-founder of the CanadaCleantech Alliance, a board director at the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP) and sits on advisory boards for the MaRS Catalyst Fund, Shell’s Quest Climate Grant and the Pembina Institute’s UnGALA. Jane holds an MBA from Columbia University.

Peter Kennedy

With over 25 years of working experience in the investment space, Peter is a veteran technology and impact investor with experience investing in both private and public companies across Asia, U.S. and Europe. As an early investor in the impact sector (water, energy and agriculture), Peter has led more than 20 deals in this area since 2003. Prior to entering the private equity sector, he was a highly ranked equity analyst at Morgan Stanley. Peter advises and sits on numerous boards in the water, technology, and agriculture/aquaculture sectors.

Ibraheem Khan

Dr. Ibraheem Khan is the president and chief executive officer of Smarter Alloys, a Waterloo-based company he co-founded to commercialize his doctoral thesis and co-invention of the Multiple Memory Material (MMM). His patented technology enables shape memory alloys (SMAs) to become smarter, lighter, more reliable and capable in a range of commercial and industrial applications.

Dr. Khan completed his master’s and doctoral degrees at the Centre for Advanced Materials Joining in the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has an extensive publication record – over 30 refereed journal publications, two book chapters and more than 10 conference proceedings. Dr. Khan also has a proven success rate when it comes to financing for research and development – he has been involved with successfully securing over $5 million from a range of industrial and government programs. He has won a number of awards for his research and teaching efforts, including the University of Waterloo’s Paul Niessen-Cominco Award for excellence in research leadership and the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Dr. Khan received his Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Materials Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2005. In 2012, he returned to U of T MSE for two years as a post-doctoral fellow in Professor Keryn Lian’s Flexible Energy & Electronics Laboratory.

Kamran Khan

Mr. Khan is the CEO and Managing Partner of Singapore-based Emerging Infra-Tech Partners (EIP) and Infra-Tech Capital (ITC). EIP is a boutique advisory firm specializing in infrastructure finance, and ITC is an investment firm focused on emerging technologies disrupting the global infrastructure market. Mr. Khan brings over 25 years of project finance, project development and investment banking expertise with firms including J.P. Morgan, LEK Consulting, Goldman Sachs, as well as the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank (WB) and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Mr. Khan has led over $12 billion of infrastructure investments in emerging markets. He was appointed by President Obama to serve as Vice President at MCC (rank of Assistant Secretary in the US Government) where he led a $1.5 billion/year investment program and managed a $10 billion portfolio. Mr. Khan’s financial advisory experience includes participation in closing M&A transactions totaling approximately $10 billion.

Mr. Khan is a recognized global expert in infrastructure finance and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). He is a member of the Global Board of International Project Finance Association (IPFA) and has served as Technical Advisor to Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Group of Twenty (G20). Mr. Khan also serves on the Boards of several technology startups and blockchain-based companies.

Mr. Khan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, and an MS in Applied Economics and Master of Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

Chivas Lam

Chivas Lam is the Director of Greenwoods International an advisory firm which develops cross border partnerships and projects in energy and environment between Western technology innovators and large Chinese enterprises. Chivas has 35 years of operational experience in building and re-engineering companies and executing investments in Asia Pacific region.

Prior to Greenwoods, Chivas was the Managing Partner and cofounder of MNL Partners. Before MNL, Chivas was a Venture Partner at Qiming Ventures, a leading Chinese Venture capital firm with $4 billion under management. At Qiming, Chivas led the investment in the waste-to-fuel company LanzaTech, where he joined the company as its China COO, formed its WFOE, created two joint ventures with Baosteel and Capital Steel. Chivas also drove Qiming’s investments in U.S. battery company Powergenix and Chinese advanced materials company Beiterui.

Prior to joining the Venture sector, Chivas was President Asia Pacific of carbon business of Morgan Advanced Materials. Chivas carried Profit and Losses responsibility for eleven legal entities across the region including two joint ventures in China.

Before Morgan Crucible, Chivas was General Manager for South China at GEC Alstom and Project Lead Engineer at Hong Kong Electric Power. Chivas holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Sydney University and a BS in Engineering with first honors from the University of Hong Kong. He is based in Shanghai and has lived and worked in China for over 20 years.

Somboon (Joe) Lertsuwannaroj

Somboon co-founded Impact Solar in 2015 and has run the company as the Managing Director. His unconventional approach creates a dynamic business model for Private-PPA Solar Rooftop and has been recognized as first of its kind in Thailand.

He is a main driver of young and passionate developer team to expand the portfolio of Impact Solar who currently deploys more than 55 MW capacity engaged with the flagship customer like Big C Supercenter, Kerry Logistic, Thai Union, SB Furniture and leading C&I customers, to be the largest total energy solution company with the target of 175 MW in 2021.

As a career professional, Somboon started his journey in energy sector since his graduation in 2008 with overseeing the award-winning development of the 84 MW Lopburi Solar Project.

After founding Impact Electron Siam (IES) in 2011, he has involved in over 1,000 MW of clean energy project developments and transactions in Asia Pacific. His contribution leads IES business expansion including a portfolio of solar projects in Japan, biomass fuel project in Thailand, wind project development in Laos, and recently the first mover in Thailand’s private solar rooftop business through Impact Solar Limited.

His story and professional career have been internationally recognized by Asian Development Bank, awarded “The New Energy Leader” in November 2017.

He is currently driving IES and Impact Solar to enter the new energy horizontal of retail business with the ambition to improve people accessibility to clean and affordable energy by providing a mechanism that ease the prosumer ecosystem – producing, consuming, and sharing energy.

Education and Awards

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
• Certificate in Director Certification Program, Thai Institute of Directors (DCP)
• New Energy Leader Award 2017, Asian Development Bank

May Liew

May is a Director in the Investment Group at GenZero, and she is responsible for investments in technology-based decarbonisation solutions.

Before GenZero, she was Head of Sustainability and Innovation at SP Group, a leading utilities company in Asia Pacific. There, she led several key initiatives in energy transition, including strategising its sustainability focus on UN Sustainable Development Goals, investing in cutting edge sustainable technologies and venture-building of innovative business models. Her achievements include incubating and building the world’s first blockchain-powered Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) platform to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy.

She also worked at J.P. Morgan’s investment banking arm, in their New York and Hong Kong offices, where she executed strategic business reviews and capital markets transactions across fast-changing economic conditions. May started her career as a financial analyst with Fidelity Investments and with the private equity fund investments team at Temasek.

May graduated from the Boston University with a Master of Business Administration.

Colin Lim

Martin Lim

A perpetual problem solver, ideas-generator and new business connector, he has transformed idealistic startups into newsworthy, profitable businesses as the lead in corporate planning, business development and consolidation, for more than a decade.

His interest in energy and water led him to co-found Arteton Sdn Bhd to develop water treatment systems for disaster relief in the region.

With his latest venture, ELECTRIFY.SG, he and his partner, Julius Tan, plan to intend to ignite the electricity retail industry by creating a retail marketplace and simplifying the entire electricity purchasing process. Their marketplace is powered by Fibonacci, our proprietary electricity pricing engine that enables retailers to offer dynamic prices to end-users.

They have also developed Synergy, the first P2P energy trading platform for utility-grids powered by blockchain and able to empower individuals to trade their surplus energy across a city-wide power grid. Currently being trialed in Singapore, commercial trial in Japan are slated for 2019.

Horace Luke

Horace Luke is a co-founder and chief executive officer at Gogoro where he is responsible for the company’s corporate strategy, product development and the go-to-market and commercialization of its products and services. Previously, Horace served as chief innovation officer at HTC, where he played an instrumental role in leading the company’s transformation from a white label hardware manufacturer to one of the most desirable and innovative mobile phone brands in the world. From 2006 to 2011 at HTC, he led product strategy from concept to delivery, garnering a variety of industry awards, including the GSMA’s “Best Smartphone of the Year” in 2010 for the HTC Hero, the GSMA’s 2011 Device Manufacturer of the year. Prior to HTC, Horace spent ten years at Microsoft, where he led product ideation and brand development for a variety of Microsoft’s most important franchises including the first generation Xbox, Windows XP and Windows Mobile. Horace also served at Nike where he played a key role in the brand development across a number of progressive brands.

Ronie Mak

Ronie leads and manages the strategy, operations and development of RS Group’s activities in HK and globally. RS Group is a mid-sized HK-based family office committed to creating a paradigm shift in people’s values and priorities so that economic growth will support, instead of jeopardize, human development and environmental sustainability.  Through leading and managing the deployment of the group’s capital and resources, Ronie believes that one should, and can, “invest in the future one wants to create”. She also  led the incubation of the Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) under RS Group (http://sustainablefinance.hk/), a community platform focusing on private investors to drive demand and promote sustainable finance in HK.

Ronie is an investment banker by training with over 15 years of banking & finance experience. Prior to joining RS Group in 2014, she spent 8 years at HSBC across various roles (CEO office, Strategy, in-house M&A). During this period, she also acted as the Secretary of the Hong Kong Association of Banks in 2012. Other prior roles included corporate finance positions within KPMG, UPS and HSBC. Ronie was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney with merit and a double degree in finance and marketing, Bachelor of Commerce.

Humera Malik

Humera Malik is the founder and CEO of Canvass Analytics, where she drives the vision and strategy for changing the way industrial companies think about and use operational data. Humera has worked with some of the largest businesses around the world to transform their business strategies, enter new markets and create new revenue streams. Specifically, Humera has worked with Microsoft, AT&T and Bell Enterprise where she was responsible for defining innovative enterprise business solutions targeting several key industries – Transport, Manufacturing, Retail and Energy. Humera has received various recognitions with most recent being a recipient of the Women of M2M/IoT award and is a sought-after entrepreneur and expert to speak about the impact of industrial artificial intelligence on the global economy.

Xiang Li

Ms. Li Xiang started as a Product Development Engineer at Canopy Power. She played a critical role in developing Canopy Power’s proprietary remote asset management platform for microgrids. She developed the monitoring and management hardware and software to remotely manage the hybrid microgrids developed and built by Canopy Power. Today as a Manager of Technology, she is leading the data analytics side of the business while developing the next generation of the asset management platform. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from NUS, Singapore.

Ted Martynov

15+ years of consumer finance, technology and NGO experience, mostly in a high-growth start- up environment.

Ted is responsible for the day-to-day operations of SolarHome. Prior to launching SolarHome in 2016, Ted gained 14 years of entrepreneurial experience in developing markets, mainly in consumer finance and financial technology, taking on executive roles of increasing seniority including chief executive officer. His well-rounded business experience includes responsibility for all aspects of a start-up’s operations, including business planning, sales, technology development, finance and administration. Ted has also served in a number of political and volunteer roles in the Ukraine, having led the launch of a non-profit foundation for human rights and democracy following the Maidan Revolution in 2013. Mr.Martynov holds a degree in Mathematical Statistics and Probability from Donetsk National University, Ukraine.

Julien Mialaret

Julien is an Operating Partner at Eurazeo, a global investor in technology with offices in Paris, London, Berlin, NY, Shanghai, Seoul and Singapore. Eurazeo is currently the largest venture capital firm in continental Europe and active in Asia with approximately €3.6 bn in venture and growth capital and  €22bn overall with additional activities in private debt and private equity 

Julien deploys Smart City Fund II in China and Asean region which is focused on the digital convergence of smart city sectors: new energy, mobility, industry 4.0, property, deeptech. Smart City II launched in January 2021 with a 1^st closing at €80m and is already supported by 10 corporate and institutional investors in Europe  and Asia. The fund is expected to reach  €200m by the end of 2021.

To date, Julien has invested in digital technologies with global reach in China, Asean, Europe and the US: WeRide.ai (Driverless taxis, China), DST Car (EV Logistics, China), Grab (Rides, payments, deliveries, Singapore), Immotor (e-scooter battery exchanges, China), Neurala Inc. (Deep neural network software, US), TrustInSoft (Automated code analysis and flaw remediation, FR), Enlighted Inc. (IoT networks for buildings, US, acquired by Siemens), First Fuel Software (Energy data analytics, US, acquired by Uplight/Tendril), Organica Water Inc. (Decentralized waste water treatment, US/HK) and Actility (Low power IoT networks, FR).

Prior to joining Idinvest in 2011, Julien was based in China where he developed and acquired power projects for EDF Group. Julien holds degrees from La Sorbonne University, Beijing University, ESCP Europe Business School and the French School of Oriental Studies. He is a fluent Mandarin, English, French and Spanish speaker and has working capacity in Japanese.

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Ski Milburn

Ski has an excess of 35 years as a serial cleantech entrepreneur. He is an impassioned advocate for the environment and clean energy.

Chris Mills

Chris is the CEO of Evie Networks, an Australian electric vehicle charging network developer and operator.  Chris has degrees in engineering and business and prior to joining Evie, spent the past 25 years leading the deployment of mobile network infrastructure throughout Europe, Australia and most recently in the US.

Sean Molloy

Sean Molloy is the Co-founder and CEO of Avertana, a process technology company, who has developed a ‘waste to value’ technology platform. Sean holds a degree in engineering, and prior to founding Avertana, has worked in alternative fuels, biofuels and renewable chemicals from wastes.

Olivia Oo

Olivia leads a dynamic team at SP Group that is responsible for growing a new business in electric mobility for the group. The ambition and primary focus of this new business is to build 500 electric vehicle charging points across Singapore by 2020, and through this, catalysing the growth and adoption of sustainable transportation in the country. Concurrently, Olivia is also a part of a team with the charter for business development at the corporate level for SP Group, specifically in the areas of integrated energy management and district-level solutions.

Prior to joining SP, Olivia was Deputy Director at the Singapore Economic Development Board, where she developed and implemented strategies for the creation of new businesses in partnership with companies. During her tenure at EDB, she also held appointments as Head for Clean Energy and Centre Director (Americas), based in Los Angeles.

Nicholas Parker

Nick has pioneered and championed sustainability ideas, ventures and initiatives around the world for over three decades. He’s currently Chairman of Parker Venture Management Inc. through which he makes catalytic investments (presently in solar, fintech and analytics) and provides strategic advice, particularly to private wealth holders. Nicholas is also Founding Managing Partner of Global Acceleration Partners Inc. (“GAP”) a financial enterprise accelerating cross-border deployment of technologies and business models into emerging economies, especially China where Nick has been active for the past twelve years, to achieve “exponential impact” against major sustainability challenges.

Nick coined and introduced the “cleantech” concept to the finance and business community in 2002 while launching Cleantech Group (“CTG”), a market-leading research and advisory platform that he chaired until the end of 2013. Under his leadership as “Mr. Cleantech”, CTG helped create a global innovation ecosystem, mobilized over $6B in private equity and convened thousands of decision-makers, while serving influential businesses and institutions in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. In this role, he spoke at hundreds of top events and was regularly featured in most major media.

In recent years, Nick’s contribution to advisory boards includes the Singapore Economic Development Board, Ontario Premier’s Climate Change Advisory Panel, Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research and the Clinton Global Initiative where he was principal energy and climate advisor. From 2003-08, he was Chair of E+Co, the award-winning impact investment company for clean energy enterprises in frontier markets. Nick is currently a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and serves as Treasurer and Board Member of the Centre for Mindfulness Studies.

Nick earned a BA Tech, Hons. (Carleton University, Ottawa) and an MBA in International Business (City University, London). He has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America while currently residing in Toronto. He’s authored or edited many publications and articles related to cleantech, sustainability, finance and international business, starting with Investing in Emerging Economies in 1993, co-published by The Economist and the International Finance Corporation. Nick’s a keen swimmer, soccer fan, outdoor enthusiast and happy parent.

Nicolas Payen

French national, Nicolas Payen has 15 years of experience in both engineering and marketing/commercial leadership roles. His deep-tech journey started in 2008 as the co-founder of a start-up named Efficient Home looking after the emerging market of the Smart Homes / Smart Grid for Schneider-Electric. In 2012 he released the connected residential energy management system named WISER. This connected solution was then deployed in the largest French Smart Grid pilot named Greenlys.

In 2013, he moved to Hong-Kong to head the Smart Space Category for the Asia Pacific and to lead the deployment of a channel partner program for the building technology’s system integrators of Schneider Electric. In March 2016, he became the Global Head of Internet of Things for MANN+HUMMEL, the largest filtration company in the world, where he led an Innovation Lab and a Global Competency Centre on smart devices, digital services, big data, and AR/VR. The OurAir solution was then launched to help building owners and consumers to improve indoor air quality.  In April 2017, Nicolas created the Future Economy Studio – a digital ventures building company in Singapore.

Positive Energy Ltd. was incubated in 2017 inside the Future Economy Studio. Since then Nicolas, as CEO and Co-founder, leads the development of this Fintech start-up. For solar and wind developers who want to finance their projects and for investors who look for investment opportunities in the renewable energy space and because both parties suffer from lengthy, costly, and expensive due diligence, Positive Energy Ltd provides a blockchain based digital platform to maximize deals discovery, to ease match-making and to accelerate the deal flow through standardization. This platform increases the amount of capital available to finance these infrastructures and so accelerates the energy transition.

Worawat Pitayasiri

Worawat is the Senior Executive Vice President of Innovation and Digital for PTT engaged in sourcing and deployment of new technologies to drive growth for the company. Worawat also serves as a director in IRPC and PTT Tank. He previously spearheaded the vigorous growth of PTT group petrochemical business including several major M&A, and joint ventures with international partners for sustainable chemicals development and production. He has been with PTT Group for 10 years and has involved in energy and petrochemicals industry for his entire career. Worawat received his B.S., in Chemical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University and M.S. in Management from Thammasat University.

George Prassinos

Dr George Prassinos is the founder and CEO of OXTO Energy, an innovative and growing flywheel energy storage company. George is an experienced engineer and business manager with a demonstrated history of working in the aerospace, renewables and environment industry.

George has an extensive R&D experience in the aerospace sector including power and control systems and satellite structures. George has worked with a client base which includes the European Space Agency, Surrey Space Centre and Astrium (Airbus).

George initiated, developed and delivered complete design and operational projects relating to deep space scientific missions and low earth orbit reconnaissance satellites.

George also designed, developed, manufactured and launched a flywheel energy storage system on an experimental satellite subsystem.

George has been active in the energy storage sector since 2014.

Poyan Rajamand

Mr. Rajamand is a co-founder and CEO of Barghest Building Performance (BBP), an award-winning energy efficiency technology company delivering software based optimization solutions to clients in commercial and industrial real estate sectors.

By combining advances analytics, energy management expertise and attractive financing options BBP has grown to a regional company with partners and offices across South East Asia, China, India and South Korea.

Prior to starting BBP, Mr. Rajamand worked as a Management and Strategy Consultant at McKinsey & Co., advising clients on an array of challenges including energy and Green Financing related matters.  Mr. Rajamand has also real estate investment background and was a founding member and Director in Singapore River One – a Public/Private partnership that brings a wide range of stakeholders together with the goal of creating precinct level improvements.

Singapore is currently in the forefront of Green Building Movement thanks to progressive government policies and foresight by the private sector. The development of the sector has led to creation of companies developing exciting new technologies in this space. With Barghest Building Performance being one of these companies, Mr. Rajamand has deep network and intimate knowledge of established and nascent technologies in the Green Building Space.

Mr. Rajamand holds a Masters in Engineering from EEIGM (France), an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Management (USA) and is a Singapore Certified Energy Manager (SCEM).

Raymond Ravelo

Supharat Ridthichai

François Robitaille

François is an enthusiastic entrepreneur, he’s proud about building an organization that will impact future generations. With his expertise, XpertSea is working to empower the aquaculture food production industry through technological innovation. Before co-founding Xpertsea, François was a Senior Associate at PwC, auditing and advising tech companies. François holds a Bachelor of Accounting degree from Laval University and completed his CPA, CA certification.

Jasmine Saini

Jasmine Saini is the Operations Manager of Scootbee. She obtained an MSc in Management from Singapore Management University in 2017.

Eka Satria

Born in 1967. Appointed October 2017

Eka Satria is an expert in managing major project and business development with more than 27 years of experiences in oil/gas, energy business, power, geothermal, Infrastructure projects and LNG development. His major expertise is in the area of conceptual selection, project and construction management, operation management, assets commercialization, project financing and business development of the major and complex project.

Joined Medco in the year 2008, his extensive work experience includes positions as Medco E&P Indonesia Development Director, Vice President of Project Capability at Medco Energi International, BP Tangguh LNG Upstream Sr. Project Manager, as well as various positions at ARCO as development and engineering professional for various offshore and onshore projects.

His educational backgrounds involve a Master of Civil Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Magister Management from University of Indonesia and BP Executive Program – Major Project Leaders, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston.

Max Schulze

Developer turned Growth & Strategy Nerd. Co-Founder & CTO of tech startups in Germany, US and UK including Nukotoys, Lobster, Die Politiker. People person & deep understanding of cultures & growth mechanics.

Justin Sim

Dr. Wuthipong Suponthana

Warit Taechajinda

Warit is a manager in Electricity Value Chain project team of PTT Public Company Limited, Thailand’s national energy company.  Warit has been with PTT for more than 10 years and have worked in many business units in the company from Natural Gas business unit, Petrochemical business unit, Infrastructure business unit to the current position at Innovation and Digital business unit. Warit has also had experience in working within many subsidiaries inside PTT group companies namely Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC), PTT MCC Biochem Company Limited (PTTMCC), and PTT (Lao) Company Limited. Currently, he is tasked with finding new businesses from the electricity value chain business which could potentially become new S-curve for PTT.

Warit earned his master’s degree in Engineering for Sustainable Development from University of Cambridge. He also received an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University.

Ted Tan

Mr Ted Tan is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Singapore, the government agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry responsible for championing enterprise growth.

Mr Tan plays an important role in growing local enterprises, building their capabilities, enhancing their competitiveness and establishing strategic partnerships, both locally and internationally, to help start-ups and enterprises grow into globally competitive companies.

Mr Tan was the Deputy CEO of SPRING and International Enterprise (IE) Singapore. He was the Chairman and Board Member of several companies including the International Trade Institute of Singapore and CrimsonLogic, as well as Board Member of SPRING and DesignSingapore Council. He is currently the Chairman of SEEDS Capital, Chairman of IPI, Steering Board Member of Advanced Remanufacturing Technology Centre (ARTC), Board Member of Singapore Management University Academy, SAL Ventures Ltd and Member of the Committee for Private Education (CPE) of SkillsFuture Singapore.

Before joining the public service, Mr Tan spent 18 years in the private sector and held senior positions including President and CEO of companies.

Mr Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration. He is an alumnus of the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

William Temple

William Temple is a Co-Founder and Director of Ampotech: a Singapore-based IoT hardware company that provides power monitoring solutions for residential and commercial buildings.  He has over 7 years of international experience in research, engineering, and project management focusing on topics such as the smart grid, green buildings, and internet of things. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and Cornell University, respectively. He is a member of the IEEE and IFMA and is a Singapore Certified Energy Manager.

Velan TS

Velan is a Cleantech professional who successfully transitioned himself from a corporate fintech environment to high growth startup environment in Singapore. Prior to co-founding EverComm, Velan is an accomplished strategy consultant and a project management professional with 20 years plus experience in implementing digital banking across the Asia Pacific. He has worked in coveted technology companies like IBM and Infosys Technologies.

Being cited in the Singapore parliament and recognised as one of the digital pioneers by the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE), EverComm works closely with top firms such as McKinsey & Co, General Electric, and is expanding its business in countries such as Israel, Germany, India and China through Singapore government-led mission trip.

To bridge the sustainability implementation gap, Velan’s flagship projects in EverComm includes working with various Singapore government agencies and trade associations on piloting high impact national-level initiatives such as Industry Transformation Maps (ITMs), TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) Pilot for Mid-career PMETs and Local SME Digitization.

Chin Foong (CF) Tong

Dr. CF Tong is the CEO and co-founder of Xnergy, a technology company headquarter in Singapore focusing on innovative charging technology for mobile robots. Xnergy is have strong industrial experience founding members and is active in Asia and Europe for pilots with several Fortune 500 companies. CF holds a PhD from University of Warwick in Power Semiconductor application and together with the expertise from the founding team, Xnergy successfully created the smallest high power universal contactless charger in the market.

Sunit Tyagi

Dr. Tyagi is a serial entrepreneur passionate about technology and sustainability, in 2012, he co-founded igrenEnergi Inc a product company focusing on Power Electronics for Solar and Storage, developed based on patented, proprietary and revolutinary architecture for ‘packetization and digitalization of energy’ that gives unique flexibility and fine grained control for system level optimization. This approach improve energy storage and generation cost, performance and safety upto 2x with our innovative electronics. Previoulsy he co-founded InSolare Energy Pvt Ltd in 2008, a solar technology engineering company operating in S. Asia, and growing since then with a CAGR of 40%, having completed > 60 projects, totalling over $100 Million in cost and generating 120 MW solar energy.

Prior to starting on his entrepreneurship journey, Sunit was at Intel for 18 years. From 2005 to 2008 he drove development of first microprocessor done completely out of India with over 2 Billion transistors, executed flawlessly and delivered on target. Prior to 2005 for 15 years he led development of process technology used in Intel’s semiconductor factories,culminating in him leading the overall development of Intel’s 65nm VLSI technology that was used in Intel’s factories from 2004 to 2008 for manufacturing millions of microprocessor. He architected, defined and delivered to manufacturing factories stable and highly successful intergated circuits process technologies making numerous strategic decisions for adoption of radical ideas and products; balancing business and organizational changes risks with timely completion.

Sunit has wide leadership experience in far ranging domains such as oil exploration, renewable energy, VLSI and computing industry. He has successfully led several multi-Billion dollar projects, with disciplined focus on execution and quality, doubling the profitability of products.

Katarina Uherova Hasbani

Katarina is Founder of EnRupt, open innovation platform for energy sector. She founded EnRupt to support the ongoing transformation of the energy sector to be closer to the customer, using cleaner, renewable sources, and leveraging digital technologies. She is driving this transformation by building partnerships between young, innovative startups and corporations. EnRupt has rapidly become a dynamic builder of energy-focused startup innovation from Singapore and expanding to Dubai in Q4 2018.

Katarina has 15 years of professional experience in energy from government & consulting in Europe, Middle East & South-East Asia. She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2011 and continues to research on topics related to energy sector transformation, focusing on countries and companies transiting from fossil-fuels to renewable energy based systems. Katarina is Vice President on the Board of the Alliance for Rural Electrification (Industry association, HQ in Belgium) and driving Insead Alumni Women in Business activities. She is always looking out for opportunities to support energy sector transformation and champion gender equality, especially in energy.

Quentin Vaquette

Shailesh Vickram Singh

Shailesh Vickram Singh is Managing Partner – Massive Fund and founder – GoMassive incubator which invests in areas related to Climate change, Renewables, Agriculture, Food chains, Water & sanitation.

Apart from Massive, Shailesh is also Executive Director with SeedFund (a $54 mn VC fund based in India). Prior to SeedFund, Shailesh was MD of $170 mn PE Fund and have worked in GVFL (VC fund), and UTI in its private investments division.

Shailesh regularly writes at his blog Fringenotes, on issues related to policy, economics, tech, environment, venture capital and entrepreneurship and has been regularly published in leading newspapers of India including Economic Times, Times of India, YourStory, Inc42, Huffington Post India, Swarajya Magazine among others.

Jamie Wallace

Sean Wihera

Sean Wihera is the Director of Business Development with Clarity Movement (clarity.io). Clarity leverages its expertise in air sensing technology, IoT devices, and data analytics to create next-generation air quality management solutions that revolutionize the way cities understand and respond to air pollution. Clarity is currently operating sensor networks in 40 cities throughout 26+ countries across 6 continents with partners like Cisco, UN Habitat and the City of Paris.

Prior to joining Clarity Movement, Sean was a Program Manager with the Energy Technologies Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) and the Founding Director of the US Department of Energy’s Berkeley Cleantech University Prize (CUP) at UC Berkeley. Sean has served as a mentor to over twenty cleantech startups through various programs, including the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) iCorps Program. Sean is a member of the City of Berkeley’s Startup Cluster Advisory Board.

Brett Wilcox

Brett Wilcox is CEO of Cvictus Inc. From 1985-2005, Brett was founder, owner and CEO of Northwest Aluminum Company, Goldendale Aluminum Company and Golden Northwest Aluminum Company which together operated two primary aluminum smelters (250,000 MT/year) and three casting operations (400,000 MT/year). From June 2005-December 2011 Brett was CEO of Summit Power Alternative Resources, where he managed all aspects of energy development on several wind, solar and natural gas projects including permitting, construction, commercial power sales and financing. In 2007-08 he also served as Interim CEO of Laurus Energy with responsibility to develop and finance its eUCG project in Alberta, Canada.

Brett currently serves on the Board of Directors of Kaiser Aluminum Corp., and previously on the Board of Oregon Steel Mills. Brett also owns and runs Capital Realty Corp, which develops and manages real estate and other family investments. He graduated from Princeton University in 1975 concentrating in economics and public finance, and Stanford Law School in 1978. Brett has served as Chair of the Oregon Economic Development Commission and Oregon Progress Board, and is involved in numerous civic and charitable activities.

Lawrence Wu

Lawrence is an entrepreneur at heart, with a passion for environmental sustainability and a decade of experience building successful ventures in the renewable energy sector. Lawrence began his career as an investment banker at global financial institutions such as DBS, Macquarie, BNP Paribas and Goldman Sachs, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, reverse takeovers, schemes of arrangement and de-listings of public companies. It was through this experience that he earned an appreciation for the hard work and resilience required to identify an opportunity in the marketplace, see it through, and have it all come together in the end to deliver value.

Lawrence graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a bachelor of Accountancy degree (First Class Honours). He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Institute) and Chartered Accountant, Singapore (ISCA).

Ethan (Yanchao) Xia

Richard Youngman

Since January 2016, Richard Youngman has been CEO of San-Francisco based Cleantech Group (CTG). This followed 7 years of driving the growth of CTG’s activities outside North America, especially in Europe and Israel, and Asia, based in CTG’s office in London.

Richard has more than ten years’ experience researching cleantech innovation, venture capital markets, and start-ups across Europe and globally. He is a regular keynote speaker at major cleantech events and is the driving force behind the annual Global Cleantech 100, a list of the world’s most promising private cleantech companies.

Robert Zabors

Bob has worked with energy, infrastructure, transportation and private equity clients for more than 25 years. He has advised on strategies, investments and technology that have resulted in meaningful change and innovation. His articles have appeared in many industry publications, and his client work includes results recognized with the EEI Edison Award, M&A “Deal of the Year,” generation “Plant of the Year,” and “Best 10 Year Shareholder Return.” Bob has also participated in the Aspen Institute and has been an energy leader with the Clinton Global Initiative.

Karim Zaghib

Dr. Karim Zaghib is the Director of – Energy Storage and Conversion at Hydro-Québec’s research institute, IREQ, ranks among the researchers most highly cited by their peers, as established by Thomson Reuters’ The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 and 2016. Since joining IREQ more than 20 years ago, he has contributed to the development of lithium-ion battery materials for electric transportation and energy storage applications. Dr. Zaghib has authored 368 scientific articles and edited or co-edited nearly 20 books, and is a joint inventor in 550 patents. An active member of the Electrochemical Society, he was awarded the Energy Technology Division Award 2009 and the Battery Division Technology Award 2013, and was elected ECS Fellow in 2011. He also received the International Electric Research Exchange (IERE) Research Award in 2008 and the International Battery Association (IBA) Research Award in 2010. Karim Zaghib holds a Masters (1987) and a Ph.D. (1990) in electrochemistry from the Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble in France. From 1990 to 1992, he engaged in postdoctoral research financed by Saft, a world leader in high-tech batteries, and by the armament branch of France’s department of defense. From 1992 to 1995, he was guest researcher for the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (METI). In 2002, he received the HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) in materials science from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France). Thanks to Dr. Zaghib’s work, Hydro-Québec was the first company in the world to use lithium iron phosphate in Li-ion battery cathodes and to develop natural graphite and nanotitanate anodes. The most recent advances resulting from his work, which were achieved in collaboration with research centres based in Singapour and Spain, among other countries, will pave the way for the next generation of electric vehicle batteries. His research also led to the creation of Technologies Esstalion, a joint venture with Sony Corporation whose mission is to develop large-scale energy storage systems.

Leo Zhang

At Cleantech Group, Leo’s work revolves around the company’s core mission in accelerating sustainable innovation. Specifically, Leo supports a broad range of clients across the entire cleantech innovation ecosystem on technology scouting, market research, and advisory services. In addition, he also supports the company’s activities in China, including the company’s annual Cleantech China Tour, which convenes a select group of leading Western investors and start-ups in China for a week of meetings and network-building.

Leo earned a B.S. in Biotechnology with a minor in Technology Management from the University of California, Davis and a M.S. in Bioenergy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His graduate work focused on the interdisciplinary challenges in implementing and commercializing bioenergy solutions.