Amri Ilmma is the CEO of Edufarmers International Foundation, an Indonesia-based nonprofit strengthening food security across Southeast Asia. Edufarmers runs long-term farmer partnership programs focused on productivity, climate-smart agriculture, agriculture sustainability, and AI-powered agronomic advisory. Edufarmers disseminates Agronomic AI tools to smallholder farmers across Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Additionally, Edufarmers tackles the issue of nutrition access and availability through community-based stunting prevention programs in Indonesia.
Amri brings almost two decades of experience spanning food security, sustainability, and international development. He previously led Indonesia and regional operations at Enveritas (a Y Combinator-backed coffee sustainability assurance company), and has conducted economic development research with J-PAL at MIT and the World Bank. He also served as an advisor to the Special Staff of the President of Indonesia. He holds an MPA/ID from Harvard Kennedy School and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Indonesia.As the Director of Investments & Impact at Brightlight, Benedict stewards capital to deliver blended financial, social, and environmental returns within private markets. His role covers the full investment lifecycle - from deal design and structuring, through due diligence, to ongoing portfolio management.
With over a decade of cross-sector experience, Benedict specialises in real assets and impact investment. His career bridges two worlds: the analytical rigor of traditional real estate valuation and consulting, and the hands-on execution of complex urban renewal and community infrastructure projects. Guided by a philosophy that views capital as a force for positive long-term transformative change and grounded by faith, Benedict is passionate about ventures that promote environmental sustainability and social equity, contributing to a more resilient and flourishing world.Dr. Carl Thong is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the Sunstone Group, a family office with diverse businesses. He is the General Partner of Eagle Venture Fund, a social-impact venture capital fund, and the chairman of Eagle Venture Studio Asia. Eagle invests in companies that fights human trafficking, provides economic empowerment, economic enablement, and healthcare transformation.
Beyond entrepreneurship, Carl serves as the Chairman of TrustBridge Global, the world’s largest international Christian donor-advised fund, and as Co-Chair of Generosity Path, an international ministry leading the global generosity movement. He is the priest warden at All Saints English Church and also serves on the board of the Theological Education Board for the Singapore Anglican Diocese. Carl He is also a Professor at Singapore Management University. In his personal time, Carl enjoys cycling with his wife, researching great Sunday brunch restaurants for his family, reading the Bible, and playing musical instruments.Gregory is one of 100 Senior Counsels in Singapore and specialises in various spheres of civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution. He is also a recognised expert in banking and insolvency, as well as and charities governance and presently specialises in complex commercial litigation and chancery matters.
Gregory has been consistently recognised in lawyer rankings by leading directories and publications including Chambers Asia Pacific and Best Lawyers in Singapore Best Lawyers in Singapore for Insolvency and Reorganisation Law and Litigation. Among his multiple honours include being ranked as a Distinguished Practitioner in Dispute Resolution (2022), conferred the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (PBM) in 2022 and receiving the prestigious SAL Merit Award from The Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) in 2024, and the inaugural Practice Excellence Award in 2025 by his peers for Civil Litigation - Advocacy. recognised as a Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Litigation by Chambers Asia Pacific 2026. Beyond his practice, Gregory is very active in serving the community. He is the longest serving President of the Law Society of Singapore, present Chairman of the Law Christian Fellowship, Chairman of and Prison Fellowship Singapore, Board Director Founding Chairman of at Law Society Pro Bono SG, Honorary Secretary of National Council of Social Services, Member at Charity Council and Council for Borad Diversity, Trustee at National Youth Fund, and the list goes on. In recognition of his dedication and judicial temperament in his role as President of the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents, Gregory was awarded the Outstanding Volunteer Award at the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) Volunteer and Partner Awards 2025. Gregory graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was one of the main speakers in the university’s mooting team in 1992 that emerged world runners-up at the 1992 Jessup International Law Moot Competition in Washington D.C.Gugun Gumilar is an educator, activist, lobbyist, author and public speaker. He is the UN Youth Ambassador for Indonesia and the founder of the Institute of Democracy and Education (IDE) Indonesia. He is also known as a key opinion leader in youth capacity development at the global level.
In 2020 and 2021, he was active in raising funds for Covid 19 humanitarian aid in Indonesia through IDE Indonesia. He also became the best student at Dublin City University in promoting dialogue between religions, cultures and civilizations. He has also participated in various international and national activities at IDE Indonesia such as the World Tolerance Conference 2016, Southeast Asia Leaders Summit 2017, International World Forum in Jogja 2018, and providing scholarships for outstanding students in Indonesia.Helianti Hilman is an Indonesian entrepreneur and gastronomy advocate working at the intersection of biodiversity, culture, and inclusive rural economic development. Her work in sustaining Indonesia's bio-cultural food heritage and strengthening community-based food enterprises has earned her international recognition as a leading voice in social entrepreneurship.
In 2008, she founded JAVARA, building supply chains that connect thousands of smallholder farmers and food artisans across Indonesia, bringing biodiversity-based products to domestic and international markets in more than 20 countries. Building on this experience, she later founded Sekolah Seniman Pangan, an initiative that nurtures grassroots entrepreneurs, indigenous communities, and rural food artisans to develop high-value enterprises rooted in local biodiversity and traditional knowledge. Helianti subsequently initiated and led the establishment of Past Collective, a multistakeholder cooperative that enables food artisans who share common values in embracing biocultural assets and ethical trade to scale more effectively and efficiently through shared resources, collective operations, and market access. Most recently, she has been spearheading new ventures in community-based Bioculture Gastronomy, creating immersive culinary experiences and regenerative food ecosystems that celebrate biodiversity, seasonality, and cultural landscapes while strengthening local economies. Her work has received international recognition, including from the Skoll Foundation, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and the EY Social Entrepreneur Award. She has spoken at major global forums including the World Economic Forum, Obama Foundation Leaders Forum, and Social Enterprise World Forum. Her work has also been featured by leading international media including Channel News Asia, DW TV, NHK, Arirang, The Guardian, and others. Helianti holds a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Rights from King's College London and has completed executive education at Harvard Kennedy School and leading universities in Australia.Isaac Munandar is the CEO & Co-Founder of MAXY Academy, an AI-driven EdTech company dedicated to upskilling Indonesia’s Gen Z to combat skill mismatches in the job market. Through digital career bootcamps, certifications, and talent placement, MAXY Academy equips young professionals with in-demand digital skills, preparing them for the future of work.
With over 15 years of experience in the education sector, Isaac is on a mission to foster human flourishing by empowering students with the skills and opportunities they need to succeed. Currently, MAXY Academy collaborates with more than 350 universities and 100 companies in Indonesia & South East Asia, working to bridge the gap between education and employment. His dream is to see young people live their fullest lives—understanding who they are and having the courage to dream big. Passionate about leveraging technology to democratize learning, Isaac is committed to driving human capital development in Southeast Asia.“From Green Uniform to Green Economy”
James Yin is a seasoned leader and strategist with over 2 decades in the military, where he tackled complex challenges and led high-performing teams in various crises, disasters, and conflicts. With a passion for sustainability, he pivoted from protecting his country, to protecting our planet. At V-Plus Agritech, a circular agriculture company that aims to reduce food waste, carbon emissions, and water consumption, James is on a mission to drive climate action and create environmental and social impact. James is a qualified sustainability professional. He is also Affiliate Faculty of the Singapore Management University where he teaches sustainability, a Fellow at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and is a Singapore Institute of Directors-Accredited Board Director.Jeremy helps companies to scale their profits and their impact. His personal mission is to help 100 CEOs, in 10 years, to impact 100m people. Besides business growth, he helps clients to set lasting legacy goals that spur both dynamic growth and long-term impact. Some of these goals include creating 1m jobs in 10 years, clothing 1m people in 10 years, and enabling 1m under-privileged children to attend university in 10 years.
Jeremy is also a certified Family Office Advisor and also a Board Advisor to some of the fast-growing private companies in Asia, helping them to plan their next stage of growth and wealth management. For many of them, integrating their family goals and business goals are critical and he is able to integrate the two into 1 approach. Jeremy is also the director of Corporate Strategy for Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (AKLTG), an Enterprise50 Award company. Together with the leadership team of AKLTG implementing Scaling Up and digital transformation since 2015, they have scaled their net profits 12x from 2015-2019, doubling it again in 2020. Now he coaches companies across APAC how to scale. Jeremy's clients are spread across APAC, in more than 20 different industries ranging from professional services to heavy industries, and some of them have experienced 10X growth. He is also an international speaker for audiences as large as 500 business owners, and was a featured speaker on the Asia CEO Forum Tech Summit 2021 speaking on digital transformation. Jeremy is a founding member of Transformational Business Network Asia (TBNA), and serves as a pro-bono business mentor for social enterprises in Asia that are working to eradicate poverty through enterprise.Dato Kim Tan is Chairman of SpringHill Management, a private fund management company specialising in biotech and social venture capital investments. He has been a pioneer of social impact investing for over 20 years and is a partner of several social impact funds including Inqo Investments (South Africa), Novastar Ventures (Kenya) and Garden Impact Investment (Singapore). He is an advisor to Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures.
He is the co-founder of the Transformational Business Network and a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust and the Centre for Enterprise, Markets & Ethics (Oxford). He was the founder chairman of NCI Cancer Hospital (Malaysia) and the inventor of the sheep monoclonal antibodies. He developed the first rapid tests for Salmonella in chickens and for atrazine pesticide in drinking water. He is a Pro-Chancellor of Surrey University (UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK). He was the former Chairman of the Surrey & Hants Innovation Growth Team, former board member of the APEC Life Science Innovation Forum and the Saracens Rugby Club. He has a PhD in Biochemistry and 3 post-doctoral fellowships from the Medical Research Council (UK). He was the recipient of the Guildford Roll of Honour (2014) and the UK Beacon Award for Impact Investment (2017).Mark serves as Director of Operations at Telunas Resorts, a Southeast Asian hospitality brand built around the idea that a resort can be genuinely restorative — for the guests who visit and for the remote island communities where Telunas operates. He is also a partner at BME Services, a consulting firm focused on executive coaching and leadership advisory.
Mark is passionate about seeing business leaders embrace the potential of their business as a force for good in the world — one that can transform culture, honor and empower people, and restore communities. He is especially committed to raising up leaders in challenging places: people whose influence is marked by generosity, humility, and a steady commitment to empowering those around them. Originally from Canada, Mark has called Asia home for more than two decades. He and his wife Maria, who is Indonesian, are raising two teenage boys, and much of what he believes about business and leadership game has been shaped by that life lived across cultures.Melvyn spent 18 years of his life as a banker and General Manager of a stockbroking company before responding to the call to do religious work for the next 18 years of his life. For the 3rd period of 18 years of his life, he's passionate about the synergy between the Marketplace and alleviation of poverty through enterprises.
Redza is a social entrepreneur and ecosystem builder, currently leading ASBhive at the Asia School of Business and serving as President of the Chamber of Social Entrepreneur Development (CSED).
He has co-founded multiple impact-driven ventures, including Grub Cycle, and raised over RM 1 million within the first four months of operations. Today, his work focuses on building pathways for social enterprises to scale through capital and ecosystem support. He has mobilised over 60 Malaysian social enterprises to the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) and co-developed the ASBhive x TBN Impact Accelerator Program to strengthen investment readiness across the region. Redza actively collaborates with corporates, investors, and government agencies to unlock market access and capital flows for impact-driven ventures across ASEAN.Renée spent her early career building strategies and systems for mission-driven startups, nonprofits and growing businesses in the U.S. and Latin America. Those experiences deeply informed how she thinks about the role of business in creating social change and economic opportunity, leading her to where she is today at the intersection of social entrepreneurship and impact finance.
Currently, she leads the Latin America expansion of the Transformational Business Network. They mobilize local sources of catalytic capital and address systemic gaps in investment readiness in order to channel more fit-for-purpose investment to businesses solving social and environmental problems. Renée holds degrees in entrepreneurship and economics from Belmont University and previously served as Development Manager and Lumos Fellow at Fundación Calicanto in Panama.Tamara founded Liberty Society, a social enterprise of eco & impactful B2B merchandise & hampers that empowers marginalized women. Because of her passion to combine profit and purpose, her previous experiences in the intersection of corporations and nonprofits include being Head of Acquisition at Yuna&Co, Partnership manager at Digitaraya, a Google for Startup Accelerator, and Director of Second Chance, a non profit initiative focusing on child sponsorship & micro financing poor households.
She graduated from Biola University, double majoring in Sociology (Social Justice emphasis) and Communication Studies. She also mentors & consults for youth-led NGOs and social projects working for refugee groups, disaster relief, and rural community development. Liberty Society was named #1 winner of Women Empowerment Principles award 2021. Most recently, Tamara was one of the 14 Global Young Leaders for Generation 17, a program by Samsung & UNDP to advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals.Teddy Hartono Tanuwidjaja is the founder and CEO of TDR, a trendsetter and pioneer in developing high performance technology for personal mobility vehicles. After graduating from university with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering in 1997, Teddy ventured into the world of motorcycle components, in which he founded TDR in 2003. Over the years, TDR has grown into an internationally known brand that continue to offer high performance solutions worldwide.
Apart from his career, he serves as a faithful leader in multiple organisations, including as the Chairman of Family First Indonesia and the Chief of Transformation Business Network (TBN) Indonesia.