The Stewardship Advantage

Karan worked for over a decade as a senior staffer at the World Bank, where he led the Energy Climate Finance team. He was a key member of the team that pioneered the world’s first dedicated carbon fund, the Prototype Carbon Facility, and is widely known as the founder and lead author of ‘State & Trends of the Carbon Market(s),’ a market intelligence report. He led innovative joint World Bank Group operations with the IFC and MIGA to mobilise commercial financing for clean energy transactions through public-private partnerships. Karan started his career working in climate change policy at the Environmental Defense Fund in 1992, focusing on intergovernmental climate change negotiations. He was subsequently recruited by PWC in 1997 to launch and run the firm’s global climate change risk management and strategy consulting business. He also developed clean energy projects in the US and overseas with EnergyWorks, a start-up joint venture of Bechtel and PacifiCorp. 

Karan earned an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and an AB from Middlebury College. Karan, an avid collector of contemporary art from India, lives in Washington DC.

Krista is an experienced global business leader in banking with an international track record of running, growing, and fixing local and global businesses in Asia Pacific, Europe and the US. She has a deep sector and product knowledge across wholesale and retail banking anchored in her 25-year international experience with NAB and ING.

Krista is currently the Executive for Asia of C&IB National Australia Bank. In this role, she is responsible for all NAB activities in Asia. She joined NAB in January 2021. Until December 2020, Krista was the CEO of Wholesale Banking Asia Pacific. She was also a non-executive non-independent director of ING Australia. Prior to that, she was CRO and Executive Board Member of ING Belgium SA. 

Krista was most recently awarded the title of Fellow of the Hogenheuvelcollege of the Catholic University of Leuven. She is a recipient of ING’s global Engaging Leadership Award and a laureate of the prestigious Prince Albert Fund. She is a qualified business and personal coach.

She is known by her stakeholders as a courageous, decisive and inclusive leader with a strong drive for change. She is caring, result-driven and likes learning.

Jesher Loi is Ya Kun International's third-generation business owner and brand guardian. Ya Kun is a regional brand that serves Singapore’s heritage breakfast of kaya toast and local coffee. They are currently in 11 countries with over 131 outlets worldwide. Jesher oversees the branding elements of each outlet and ensures brand consistency throughout its operations. He is also actively involved in the regional expansion strategy as Ya Kun goes beyond Singapore’s shores. On the side, Jesher is actively involved in the classical music scene among youth and also strives to use the vehicle of the business for social good.

Prior to Greatbatch, Mr Ang was President, Asia/Pacific for Hill-Rom Inc. a US$3B revenue medical devices company (acquired by NYSE: BAX) where he was responsible for leading, developing and implementing the strategy to expand Hill-Rom’s presence in Asia/Pacific markets. He formerly served as the Chief Technology Officer for Hill-Rom for 3 years. In that role, he was responsible for Hill-Rom’s global R&D operations distributed across sites in the US, Mexico, France and Singapore. At Hill-Rom, he also held the positions of Vice-President and General Manager of Hill-Rom’s US$420M Global Surfaces and Therapy Business unit, and Vice-President for International Business Development. He formerly headed the global Medical Technology and Biotechnology industry groups in the Singapore Economic Development Board’s (EDB) Biomedical Division.

Mr Ang sits on the Board of Economic Development Innovations Singapore, a privately-held company headquartered in Singapore. With expertise honed in conceiving and managing townships in India, Vietnam, China and Indonesia, EDIS’ core business is in investing, managing and developing integrated cities globally. In addition, he sits on the Boards of the following operating and investment companies: Dornier MedTech, AMT Pte Ltd and SonoMotion. He chairs the Board of AWAK Technologies, which is developing a novel peritoneal dialysis device. He was formerly on the Board and Nominating Committee of Aslan Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: ASLN). Mr Ang is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Nanyang Business School in Singapore and Waseda University in Japan, where he teaches in their respective MBA programs. Mr Ang has a Master of Science in Computational Biology from Rutgers University in New Jersey, which he pursued while on an EDB scholarship. He attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in 2012. He was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2021 for his contributions to the medical device industry in Singapore.

Fay Fay Choo is the Asia Cocoa Director for Mars Incorporated and responsible for Mars’ sustainable sourcing strategies in Asia. In this role, she is humbled to be able to serve tens of thousands of cocoa smallholder farming families and communities in Indonesia, the Philippines and PNG. Fay’s passionate about transferring science and technology solutions from Mars research centres, through community and farmer empowerment based approaches, to enable adoption at scale for improved yields and income. The next movement is now focused on scaling diversified cocoa agroforestry, which brings resilient farmer livelihoods and environmental protection across landscapes together, to make chocolate that brings smiles to farming families and consumers around the world.

Munib Madni from Panarchy Partners is the founding Panvestor and Lead PM of the Global Panvest® Fund, a portfolio of Purpose-Driven companies. After 25 years of investing for the likes of Morgan Stanley and Aberdeen, Munib founded Panarchy Partners with a mission to redefine wealth and how it is created. Panarchy Partners has Pioneered the Panvesting Philosophy, a natural and required evolution of investing. As a shareholder, to Panvest is to be vested in the four forms of capital (human, social, environmental and financial) that a firm needs and nurtures to deliver on their purpose and still make profits.  

Munib has been investing for 27 years. He started his career in Sydney, Australia, with the likes of Equitilink Investment Management and Aberdeen Asset Management where he focused on Australian Equities. In 2005, he moved to Singapore with Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) to broaden his equity focus. He was at MSIM for 14 years and had assignments such as PM Emerging Markets Team, Chief Investment Officer Asia and CO-PM Active International Allocation Strategy. After leaving MSIM in 2018, he founded Panarchy Partners with a strong belief in the philosophy of Panvesting.  

Munib has been a student throughout his life. He received a Bachelor of Finance (First Class Honors) & LLB from the University of Technology, Sydney. He also obtained his CFA Designation in early 2000. In 2018, he went back to school to sharpen his skills as a Panvestor and in June 2020, he graduated from the National University of Singapore with an MSc in Environmental Management (MEM).