Ng Pei Kang

Innovation & Technology

CEO of TRIA, a venture backed, ​sustainable packaging solutions company.​

Over 15 years in innovation strategy, technology development, design development, design for sustainability and waste valorisation. More than 10 patents under his name. ​

Former Design Innovation Lead for Philips TV and Home Theatre System portfolios.​

Winner of iF, EISA, Pentawards, ASEAN-Korea Excellent Design Award, Singapore Packaging Star Awards. ​

Honouree of Eco-Business’s A-list for Sustainability Leadership and a juror for the Singapore Good Design Award. ​

Seeram Ramakrishna

PhD. FREng. Scientific Advisor

Professor of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, National University of Singapore (NUS)​

Chairman of Sustainable Manufacturing TC at the Institution of Engineers Singapore and Plastics Recycling Centre of Excellence (PRAS) Singapore.​

A member of ISO Committees on ISO59020/TC323 Circular Economy, and TC for Circularity of Materials;​

Named among the World’s Most Influential Minds by Thomson Reuters, and the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science and Cross-Field by Clarivate Analytics for consecutive ten years.​

Lim Chon Phung

PhD. Advisor

PhD General Management, Singapore Management University​
Research Fellow, Singapore Management University​

Former SVP Customer Support Service, Oracle APAC and Japan​

Former VP Sales & Marketing, Hewlett-Packard APAC & Japan

Virginia Cha

PhD. Advisor

Serial Entreprenuer, angel investor and educator. ​

Professor of Entrepreneurship, teaching at INSEAD, ​

NUS Business School, SMART (Singapore MIT Alliance for Research & Technology) and Lean Launchpad@Singapore. ​

Edwin Seah

Sustainable Strategy

Over 20 years' experience in ​regional public policy, sustainability, and strategic communications.
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Thought leader in sustainable packaging and has spoken at numerous events and conferences across Asia at the invitation of governments, companies, and multilateral organizations including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Bank.​

Former Head of Policy, Public Affairs & Sustainability at Food Industry Asia (FIA).​

Authored the Food industry's Sustainable Packaging Roadmap 2020-2024. Developed model process & material standards for the use of rPET (working with Coca-Cola, Nestle, PepsiCo & Danone). ​

Tong Yen Wah

PhD. Bioenery & Anaerobic Digestion

Veteran researcher in bioenergy from ​food wastes and biomass wastes, with over 150 publications and 8000 citations. ​

Recent works in food wastes management has been successfully commercialized with distributed anaerobic digesters that can be effectively used in cities.​

Currently the co-Programme Director for an NRF CREATE programme with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) on “Energy and Environmental Sustainability Solutions for Megacities”, E2S2-CREATE, a collaborative research programme between NUS and SJTU funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation for S$89 million on studying coupled problems in megacities related to energy, environment, health ​and waste.​

Ansari M.

Waste, Recycling & Valorisation

Passionate environmentalist and ​industry veteran with 28 years of experience in the waste management, recycling, resource recovery and safe disposal industry.
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CEO of Shanaya Limited, a listed (SGX) recycling and environmental services company.​

Charts the Group’s strategic direction and business strategy. Recently taking the Group into organic waste treatment and chemical recycling. ​

Instrumental to the growth of Shanaya Group and has been involved in many aspects of the business, ranging from business strategy to market positioning, JV, M&A, globalization and branding.​

Mike Lim

Botting Markets & Investments

Former Executive Director of Dr WHO Waterworks, one of the largest bottler in Singapore and regionally for bottled water. With intricate understanding of the bottled water business and market. ​

Co-founder for several business in the IoT and future foods space. Managed his family’s business Tumble Tots, where he headed the Asia region and was eventually acquired by a UK company. ​

Currently a partner at TRIREC, an investment holding company focussed on sustainability sector, with investment portfolio such as Sunseap, the largest clean energy solutions provider in Singapore.​
A mentor at Innovate 360, a Singapore based Agrifood Tech incubator. ​

Rob Hulme

Agrifood Tech & Valorisation

Over 30 years’ global experience in Agribusiness, from research, operations, strategy, M&A to Innovation. ​

26 years with Bayer CropScience as Global Lead for Technology Licensing, Country Head Vietnam and Greater China, Head of APAC Business Development and ASEAN Innovation for the Bayer group. ​

CEO and Group Director at The Boralis Group, a consultancy with offices in Australia and Singapore focused on scaling sustainable food systems and providing growth services for innovators across the Asia Pacific region. The Boralis Group works with enterprise, government and investors to solve challenges around food production efficiency, animal welfare, natural capital and waste stream asset management.​

Joanne Lim

Supply Chain & Strategy

Over 10 years of experience in Supply Chain Management.​

Talent in sub-contractor management, include 3PL & OEM factory.
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Implement VMI with OEM factory to achieve supply chain optimization.​

Well versed in inventory management, demand forecasting and planning.​

Experience in designing supply chain process & system horizontally for internal integration between functional areas and teams.​

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Sem Loh

Innovation & Creative Direction

20 years' experience in global and regional brand design & consultancy.​

Lead communication designer for ​Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010.​

With a passion for delivering creative solutions, he has been leaded in creative strategy planning, NPD and innovative CPG branding for global and regional brands.​

Winner of D&AD, The One Show, Singapore Promising Awards, Singapore Packaging Star Awards.​

Clients he has worked with include P&G, Unilever, GSK, Kimberly-Clark, Bremworth, Telkom Indonesia, Gunung Slamat, SIA, F&N, CapitaLand, Nefful, SwissAire and many more.

Lin Qingyao

Operations & Strategic Planning

Over 15 years of corporate experience with US oil major (ExxonMobil), traversing in different roles across the global organization​

Asia Pacific Packaging and Label Manager, leading packaging procurement/development strategy and steward label development and compliance for 5 production facilities ​

6 years in Project Management/Planning, experienced in new product introductions, process enhancement initiatives and software program implementations​

6 years in Supply Chain Planning, proficient in demand management, inventory strategy and logistic planning​

Henry Tan

Chief Investment Officer

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned angel investor with a track record of successful exits. Over 10 years of experience in leading E-commerce and Mobile Apps startups to acquisition. ​

Current investment portfolio includes TRIA, Ripple, BlueNalu, Dandelion Energy, H2Pro, Koobits, having successfully exited 5 investments prior. ​

Main investment interest revolves around CleanTech, Alternative Proteins, Clean Energy and Education.​

Dexter Lee

Supply Chain Director

Industry veteran with more ​than 20 years in the Supply Chain Management of material and commodities with world top EMS such as Flextronics, Jabil and Namtai. Experienced with HMLV and LMHV business model.​

Former Global Procurement Director for Flextronics, managing spends up USD$2B. Flextronics was the number one EMS manufacturer in his days, with a manufacturing strength of 40,000 production workers and counting Apple and GE as their clients. ​

Tay Wee Leng

Circular Community Enabler

Founder of Upcircle, a community ​platform driving reuse, repurpose, recycle and upcycle projects. Awarded for National Environment Agency’s (NEA) Call For Ideas grant.​

10 years in market development and partnerships development for tech ecosystems. Experienced in user research and user experience design.​

A partner at sustainability insights research lab, Synthesis.​

Former Asian Market Lead for Berlin-based venture backed startup SaaS (Series C). ​

Ex-Apple, Ex-Siemens, managing B2B2C programs at scale with banks and telcos, such as UOB and Starhub. ​

Hong Khai Seng

Behavioral Activation

Over 15 years applying Design Thinking to business-as-usual and mission-critical enterprise systems.​

Specialises in design research, strategic foresight, organisation coaching to build process, mindset and behavioural changes that last. Clients include Heineken, Dell, Amgen, Tesco, HSBC, DBS, OSIM and public sector organisations such as MOE, SSG, JTC, EDB.​

Current research includes consumer mindset and behaviour for the activation of sustainability practices.​

Vice President of Design Business Chamber Singapore (DBCS).​