Joanna Yeo is CEO of Arukah, a project developer scaling biogas and biochar carbon credit projects from agriculture waste across Asia and Africa, with a 50% gross carbon credit revenue share to local ecosystems. She has strong conviction on the potential to lift billions out of poverty with verified data, new technology for secure payments and settlement, and financing for scalable access to sustainable, fast growing markets.
Joanna is currently an impact investment committee member of the UN Sanitation and Hygiene Fund, an advisor to Figure Technologies, and has been an INED for Collectius, a SE Asian partner to IFC's $40 Bn Distressed Asset Recovery Program.
Joanna started her career in private equity at Morgan Stanley and Keppel Corporation, and in data science at Stanford and Harvard. She holds degrees from Harvard, Stanford and Cambridge.

Peter and his brother Dieter ( 46 ) VYNCKE are the 4th generation leading the family business, VYNCKE – A Family of Companies. Peter is since October 2021 based in Singapore.

 

Peter was discharged from the KU Leuven University in 1994 ( TEW ) and was president of EKONOMIKA in 1993 – 1994. Between 1996 and 2000 Peter led the Asian settlement of the family business. During his time in Asia he was based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In 2002 the Bros took over the family business from their parents and sisters.

In 2007 Peter was elected JCI’s YOUNG FLEMISH ENTREPRENEUR.

In 2015 and 2016 Peter VYNCKE was nominated for MANAGER OF THE YEAR.

Peter is South-West Flemish, he loves to travel and considers the world as his village.

Peter is married to Fran LAVIGNE and has 6 kids to power the 5th generation of the family business.

CS Liew graduated in Agronomy and Integrated Pest Management from Iowa State University in 1979. He moved to Singapore from Malaysia in 1980 and worked in various international roles from market research to registrations and then to more senior management roles at Uniroyal Chemical. After 11 years with Uniroyal, Liew worked for Nufarm, also based in Singapore, for seven years in senior positions. He then set up his own agchem trading and marketing company, Pacific Agriscience, in 1999.
Throughout his career, he has been deeply involved in market development, sales and promotion of foliar fertilizers, micronutrients, biopesticides and biostimulants, in addition to proprietary pesticides. He has managed distributors and has been active in product training as well as developing and implementing marketing plans and strategies. Over the past 9 years, he has been very active in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) – putting together deals in the agricultural inputs space.
CS is a Council Member in the prestigious World Agriculture Forum (WAF) which has Board and Council members composed of many eminent leaders from governments, development institutions, corporates as well as experts in Agriculture. The WAF works on setting broad global agenda and development pathways for agriculture sector and lobby for policies that can direct world agriculture towards sustainability and sufficiency.
In the M&A business, CS is actively working with companies and inventors in the Biosolutions sector (Biopesticides, Biofertilizers and Biostimulants) to raise capital and to seek investors.
During the past few years, he has also been active in promoting sustainable and regenerative agriculture as well as valorisation of agriculture wastes. The conversion of Oil Palm Trunks (OPT) to useful wood products is a key focus. He is actively seeking major oil palm plantations to invest in this innovative technology and machinery from Germany for this purpose, allowing the plantations a “second harvest” while driving sustainability at the same time.

Béatrice Conde-Petit holds the position of Sustainability Officer. She is responsible for Bühler’s Sustainability Agenda and drives strategic innovation projects at the interface between science, technology and business leveraging partnerships for impact. In her previous role at Bühler she has been responsible for the Future of Food program with focus on sustainable food supply and for driving the Food Safety agenda. Béatrice Conde-Petit holds a Diploma and PhD in Food Science & Technology from ETH Zurich. Before joining Bühler in 2008, Béatrice worked at ETH Zurich for 20 years as researcher, lecturer and consultant to the international food industry. In 2023 Beatrice has received the European EPNOE technology award for leveraging science & technology for innovations for foods and sustainability.

 

With 15 years in the energy business, Loic brings valuable insights into energy commodities, renewable investments, and the energy transition. His expertise supports the creation of new ventures with ENGIE Factory.

Lina Sakai is the Founder & CEO of Fermenstation. She started her career in financial institutions (Fuji Bank and Deutsche Bank) in Tokyo and spent more than 10 years in finance, corporate planning, and M&A. Lina's curiosity to make use of resources that had not been effectively utilized drove her to study fermentation and biotechnology, leading to the founding of Fermenstation in 2009. She is passionate about utilizing micro-organisms to build a circular economy. Lina holds a degree from the Department of Brewing and Fermentation Science at the Tokyo University of Agriculture. She has also graduated from the International Christian University.